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Show Army Fire Department Extinguish Ex-tinguish Blaze With Ancient Fire Apparatus in France. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday. Jan. 16. (By the Associated Press.) Tho army fire department proved its usefulness today to-day even with part of tho out-of-dato apparatus In a small village where the troops are quartered when it extinguished extin-guished a blake which started in a hay loft and threatened to spread to other buildings in this-village. This was the first fire that had occurred in the village vil-lage in fifty-three years. The fire department de-partment belonging to the village has not been changed since 17-13, the date which the hand pump still bears. When the alarm sounded tho Americans got out the old hand pump but, finding that it was rusty and impossible of use took off the leather hose which is still in good condition, coupled it to a pump and threw water into the blazing loft. The brigadier general looked on from his quarters across tho narrow street as the firemen, under the leadership lead-ership of a former Boston fireman, throw down the bundles of burning straw from the loft and finally smothered smoth-ered the fire. oo |