Garfield County News | 1951-12-27 | Page 3 | Fire Fighters

Fire Fighters Designs Flying Wagon PORT The Mississippi river is close at but the Port Sulphur Volunteer Fire Department takes no chances of being caught without Because the firemen frequently respond to alarms from other some of which are too far Inland to make stringing of hose lines to the river they take their water supply right with It's carried in a water specially designed In the shops of Freeport Sulphur Company The apparatus consists of a tank mounted on a truck and Is operated in conjunction with another mobile unit known as a The pump sends water from the tank through the hose at a rate of gallons a A area is served by the fire most of whose personnel are Freeport employees who live with their families In a model townsite community developed by the company when It opened Its nearby Grande Ecaille sulphur mine 18 years