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Show WH FlftE FIGHTING ENGINE FOR CITY Tha new automobile combination firs engine and truck which was ordered1 a few months ago by tha ctty for service at central fire station, reached tha ctty yesterday afternoon, and Is being unloaded un-loaded today. The new truck, which coat taoOrt. is of 0 home power, and Is equipped to make fast runs and five quick service. ser-vice. The truck was taken to the Tom BottertU gang and auto shops, and later to the local lira department headquarter. A demonstrator from the factory will instruct the member of the department In every detail of the use and operation of the big; machine. It Is designed especially espe-cially to afford good fire protection to outlying districts. It can reach these much more quickly -than the anglnea drawn by horses, and It is provided with a pump suitable to tsklng water from ditches, streams or wells when necessary. Tests are being made today and the machine tuned up. The fire committee of the city council plans to have a tryout of the engine at liberty park Sunday afternoon, af-ternoon, when It will be worked out both attached to a fire plug and drawing Its water supply from the park lake. |