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To: jpmac who wrote (13872)10/22/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Back sometimes in The Past, in Some Places, they had private fire departments; several to a city. You had to subscribe. The Insuring Fire Protection Company put a medallion on your house like "Sears", or "Wendy's", so that the hook and ladder horse-boys could be sure you were feeding them when they got there. If it wasn't their medallion, they didn't do squat, and left or got in the way, pretending to "watch".

If your house was two doors away but was a Colonel Sanders customer, they wouldn't even open their doors.



To: jpmac who wrote (13872)10/22/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Justin C  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
I grew up in a small town that had a volunteer fire department.
When a fire was called in, the fire station would sound an
alarm siren that could be heard for miles around. When they
continued to sound the alarm past the routine three times,
we knew that it was a serious fire.

I remember once as a child being in church when the fire alarm
sounded at mid-sermon and seeing the volunteer firemen arise
and run out of the church.


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