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Show ?RN ALL ABOUT Vi':RE DEPARTMENT F AND WHAT IT NEEDS Bj DARR1 P. BAGLKV Neighbor, do you pay much attention atten-tion to Ogden's fire department? Investigation SHOWS Its 1n fair shape with ample room, however, for improvement. im-provement. Ail it lark.' to be a first elate modern f.ro iip.irtrnent. suitable for n city the ::?.- of i.gden, is two new stations, two score more alarm boxes, a complete new water distribution system and reservoir, to be used for no other pmpo.-o than fire. ;i hirt-r number of liremen, a few additional -neiner, equipped with pumping ma- htnery nd a few more ln Identals. and this Is on pood authority. With this addition equipment, the Ogden fire department would have an even chance In case A really large I fire broke out in the business dls- j trict. flromen say. Twer.: -fie years ago, the Ogden j City fue department hud j 1 alarm boxes in various parts of the city. At' present there arc 26 alarm boxes, with ' another one ordered by the Holley I Milling company t,, be installed at I (heir in I ! I on Washington avenue. NJgHD Mori; iLARMS. H Fire Chief (Jcorgc Graves maintains BBBBV that there .should be a master alarm BBBBB box at each school In the city, with BBBBH auxiliary alarms on each floor of the BBBBB building. Installing the boxes would H purchasing from ten to 13 new H boxes Probably the gravest danger in Og- BBBBH den. as far us fire concerned, is fl the present water distributing system H of the city. During the past summer, BBBH if a fire had broken out in the cen- H tr of the city, efforts of the firemen B would have proved futile in trying H to extinguish the flame.-. Why? Be. H cause no less than 80 to 25 fire H plugs of the city, no flow of water BBBBB could be obtained, and in two BBBBJ .stances, at lcaat, water mains col- BBBBBBBB lapsed because of the vacuum create. H pumping engine of the fire dc- BBBBB partment, in un effort to pump water H the H One of the places where (he main BBBBB collapsed because of (he vacuum cre- L in the plpea was at the Speerj H3 N.'"' .i 'Jn.ij. of water 1 m procured, is 'stated, when a test H The c 1, tire situation. H luiding to Fire chief Graves, results B froTu the fact that the city has out- BBBBBBBJ grown its water works. Six hundred B and sixty kitchen laps were connected H lth the water mains during the past H ?car. In addition to the amount of BBBBBJ Water drawn "from the mains, the j H friction of the water In passing the H numerous openings in the water mains H is a detriment to the force of Water H available In case of a fire. Lt&RGE M I N H This friction Is epc-ially noticeable, I H la reported, when the fire depart-j H is drawing water from a six-, fl Chief Graves maintains H eight-inch main should be the H minimum sized pipe throughout the-1 H proper solution for the city to! H better conditions of the fire distlibu-l H lion system would be the installation B f another reservoir south of the pres-j H reservoir, and the paralleling of H lie present water distribution system! H 1 1 li a second system, lo be used only H in case of fire, he thinks m lf two new stations, one at rwcnt- BB t'iMh street .. n -1 T 1-r avenue, and the other at Thirty-fifth street and Wash- H l-vton avenue were installed, the cits W I 1 would be well protected as far as fire fighting apparatus is concerned, for the next 20 years. Under the present conditions the ftrc department has a .ire alarm sys-whioh sys-whioh la divided Into six circuits, , a, h rireuit embracing a different por-I por-I tion of the city. Tii..- present 1 c -tern was Installed January 1, 1 1 T, and is far more effi- r lent nd costs less for maintenance 1 lh:n the old "wet cell system" The present system is supplied with electricity elec-tricity by duplicate seis of storage I batteries. As one set Of batteries Sa discharged, thc second set Is being , h.i rg. d The apparatus of the fire alarm system sys-tem at the fire station is composed of complicated electrical equipment The apparatus which gie3 the signals sig-nals for a fire, registering the box number of the fire, consists of a register, regis-ter, which perforates a strip of paper when the alarm is sounded, a clock, rranged to keep not only the time of day but the day of the year, and a carrier for a roll of the paper which the register perforates When .in alarm is received at the 1 station, the clock automatically registers regis-ters the box number, repeating the operation four times. In the event j that an alarm was turned In from I box twenty-three, the register would ' punch two holes in the paper and i then after an interval, punch three I more holes The entire apparatus of the fire I station has repeatedly been timed In I leaving the station and it has been on ' its way from the station iti less than J three seconds after the alarm, Trial runs from the sta-tlon to points on the bench within. a thrce-nu:mer mile ra-jdiua ra-jdiua from thc station, nave bien made in 3.1 seconds. J COMPUTIXY MUTOKIZKD. Twelve thousand feet of hose are 1 .1 .11 l.i blc fr ! at the present time at the fire station. For the past two veart the department has been motorized mo-torized and nearly a dozen trueks are on.siantl: ready to dash out to a flro. Recently, the platoon system was inaugurated at the local fire department depart-ment 1 This system meant that men. instead! of putting in shifts of twenty-fout 1 hours a day, living at the station, I worked twelve-hour shifts, allowing them some time for recreation. i Under the old aysceni, a fireman had one night off each week. Under thc present arrangement, (he work Is divided Into two shifts. Smoke drills, ladcer drills, ant' various vari-ous olhcr drills ha. e been carried out to a great degree recently, that "rookies" at the f.re department should know how to limdle themselves in event they were called to a big fire. While the fireman s life is looked upon by many as I uty existence, the fireman crowds many hours of work ii '" .1 lew minutes when called to his du( While they do not put ln their entire time at labor, thev work ex-eedingl ex-eedingl hard, risking their lives, to save lives and property of others. At certain portions of the city where a twelve-Inch main i laid, from fiv to ten Eire am.-- of water can be secured to fight fires. The comer of Twenty-third street and Wall av enue e-nue is one of the places where a large force of water can be secured, while the corner of Twenty-third street and Washington avenue Is another point where from fic to ten and even more high pressure hose lines can |