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Fighting The Flames
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Fighting The Flames

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Mr. Braidwood, the able Superintendent, had for many years been training his men on a system, the original of which he had begun and proved in Edinburgh. Modifying his system to suit the peculiarities of the larger field to which he had been translated, he had brought the Fire Engine Establishment, (which belonged at that time to several insurance companies) to a state of efficiency which rendered it a model and a training-school for the rest of the world; and although he had not the advantage of the telegraph or the powerful aid of the land steam fire-engine of the present day, he had men of the same metal as those which compose the force now.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Co
Country
United States
Date
17 June 2004
Pages
252
ISBN
9781419119675

Mr. Braidwood, the able Superintendent, had for many years been training his men on a system, the original of which he had begun and proved in Edinburgh. Modifying his system to suit the peculiarities of the larger field to which he had been translated, he had brought the Fire Engine Establishment, (which belonged at that time to several insurance companies) to a state of efficiency which rendered it a model and a training-school for the rest of the world; and although he had not the advantage of the telegraph or the powerful aid of the land steam fire-engine of the present day, he had men of the same metal as those which compose the force now.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Co
Country
United States
Date
17 June 2004
Pages
252
ISBN
9781419119675