Visiting Fireman Calls Firemen
While making pastoral calls at the newly opened USAF Hospital at Edwards Air Force Base, California the Staff Chaplain, Major Norris T. Morton, a veteran Fire Department Chaplain, was talking with a patient on the second floor when the patient called his attention to an automobile which was on fire outside the hospital. Clouds of yellow smoke billowed forth out of the car. The front seat was a mass of flames which did considerable damage to the car.
Chaplain Morton called the fire department by telephone and fire apparatus was dispatched to the scene. The quick work of a Medical Detachment Orderly in fighting the blaze helped keep the fire under control until the fire department arrived.
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