| Show I FIRE RUN RECORD IS BROKEN Department Responded Thirtyone Calls During the Month of June Covering About t One Hundred Miles The month of June just closed was a recordbreaker for the city fire department depart-ment not In the way of big fires hut In the number of calls answered Thir tyone calls or more than an average of one each day were received and the total mllas coVered by the department amount to almost one hundred Chic Devine says that If It had not been for lie establishment of the new fire station sta-tion on I street the department would have been unable to respond to all the calls received from that part of the i city aa In some cases the forces from the other slallons were busy when fires broke out In the district covered by the new station and owing to the extremely extreme-ly hot weather which has prevailed It Is doubtful If the horses would have been able to pull the engines and trucks I up tho hill to some of tho fires reported report-ed The short water supply has caused Chief Devine jnuch anxiety and he believes be-lieves that the condition will grow worse Instead of better as the summer advances If a big fire should breakout break-out the Chief says the wisdom of his recommendation to the City Council that cisterns be built In the commercial district will be c an as Jim some parts of the city at present there is practically practical-ly no water Referring to the high wind which prevailed last night and the longcontinued dry spell the ChIef 1 said It almost made him shudder to hulk what the result might have been had a fire broken out in one of the larger buildings At times during the past week It Is said there has not been enough water In the mains to have kept the lire engines running long enough to do any effective work had a large tire broken OUL |
