Show watchfulness habits of TWI vigilance ance that prevent a comrades danger from del belas overlook overlooked ked after twos firemen had been taken unconscious from the cellar of a burnia burning ig bui building laing in chambers street a 6 curious citizen who wandered inside the fire lines asked itow how do they happen to know in iii all this confusion and noise that men sup posed to be fighting fire in the cellar ceba r have been nver jover i come by smoke and aro lying down there unconscious and how too with nearly 40 men rescued do they know that there are not more men in the cellar in a similar br predicament edica under the circumstances the question was perfectly natural it waa a a dark night and tho the fact that the clec electric trio lights lialios for a block east and west sputtered ed constantly inird instead ad of giving in a steady light didiot did not improve matters all was confusion around the burning guilding firemen ITi remen were running every which way policemen were beating back the cro crowd d which was struggling to get near enough to the engine house to see the pros prostrate frate firemen within ambulances and fire eng engines ines blocked the street and firemen were clambering over the roofs of adjoining buildings yelling hoa hoarsely rEely at one another and seeking places to fight the fire naturally in all this confusion it was a matter of wonder to one dria not familiar with the ways of firemen how in the world they could tell fell whether or not iao t any of their comra comrades deg was in danger the cellar of the building was full of thick black smoke which no man could live in even for a short time and besides that the temperature was down to zero for the fire was in 6 a cold storage warehouse and the freezing rooms roams were in the cellar there is a system in the fire department by which the men can keep track of one another the rule is 19 for the raen men of each company to look out for tho the members of that company this makes it comparatively easy for the men to keep track of one another for there we ara rarely more than a dozen men in a company and each man an in it knows about where his comrades are working at a fire the custom among the men is to keep constantly inquiring for one another if jones happened to see smith for some time he immediately asks the first man of his company that he cornea comes cross across where smith is if cant tell the inquiries go on and so a ruan man cant be missing for very long without his comrades knowing it then it is an easy east matter to trace smith to thel the last ast task he be was ordered to do and as a rule he be is hauled cadely out of danger from ca constant usage the syi system tem has ba s become almost perfect and the c col courage a that it has deve developed loped has made the department part ment one of the finest in the world the men will risk everything and go against the most tremendous odds to savea save a comrade new york sun |