Volunteer's Work Commended
Where all others failed, Salvatore Mazzeo, a member of the Noroton Height Engine Company No. 1 of Noroton Heights, Conn., "took a chance" and after treatment at a hospital, remarked that it "goes with the work of a fireman." It happened this way!
On the afternoon of September 15, workmen were repairing a break in a large gas tank at the plant of the Protane Gas Company, located in Noroton, near the tracks of the New Haven Railroad Company. The area was filled with the gas, creating danger of fires and explosions. All trains were halted on the main line of the railroad. An outlet valve snapped off the 8,000 gallon tank, allowing the gas to escape.
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