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Show ADD LUNG MOTOR TO OGDEN DEPARTMENT Special to The Tribune. OODKX, Oct. 1 G. A motor pumper belonging be-longing to the Ogden nVe department was given the supreme test during the past twenty-four hours, according to Fire Chief George A. Graves, when it was operated fourteen hours and iifty minutes without a stop. The pump was in use for cleaning the city reservoir In the fuothllls, and dnrin? the period it furnished three large streams of watr fnv flushing purposes. The motor, during the long run, consumed U'- gallons of gasoline. Ten gallons of oil were used. Seven-i I improvements have been made at the central station of the fire department depart-ment during the past rew davs bv the addition of a lung motor and the building of add'tlonal sleeping nuarters for the men tninsi erred from NTo. 2 station. ' The lung motor, which will be added to the equipment of the chiefs airfomobile. is of the latest design and is a practical aid for resuscitation where persons have been overcome by drowning, suffocation or electrocution. In all cases of this kind Chief Graves has Issued a public notice ! thai a call be sent for the department j lung motor. |