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Show FIREMEN DOING GOOD WORK AT STEEL PLANT Forty firemen at Geneva Steel Works, under Chief C. L. Buffaloe, are carrying out an intensive campaign cam-paign of fire prevention twenty-four twenty-four hours a day. A fire patrol car and relays of two firemen on foot work the clock around, inspecting in-specting and checking fire-fighting equipment. "Fire prevention", said Chief Buffaloe, "is our first concern. A fire prevented is much easier controlled than a fire started." start-ed." Every day all firemen go through two hours of fire drill. One hundred feet of hose have been coupled and water turned through it in 14 l-5th seconds. According to fire authorities, this is exceptionally fast time when the obstacles on a construction job are taken into consideration. In addition to fire drill, the firemen fire-men spend two hours of each shift in first-aid training. The good results re-sults of this were proved recenUy when Firemen George Wilson and James Miller of Springville and Gilbert Shumway of American Fork revived W. H. Lawary and Richard Bennett, U. P. M. workmen, work-men, who had been seriously overcome over-come by monoxide gas from a truck. The firemen refused to give up and, after an hour and a half of first-aid treatment, the men were revived. The firemen have been cited to army officials for meritorious recognition rec-ognition of their life-saving achievement. |