Show woman heads fire fighters village milliner organizes and bosses department with efficiency SPANAWAY W WASH A SH this rural community of 00 has a fire department replete with a creaking chemical truck and a fire chief the boss of the smoke eaters is a woman gracious and comely mrs joseph brewer who sells hats in a tacoma department store and otherwise thinks of holocausts where everything may go up in smoke unless she and her ber loyal crew arrive just in time mrs brewer in fact organized ways volunteer fire department last summer when she began to remodel her house finds bad mess things she discovered were in a terrible mess nobody bothered to fight fires crowds just stood around and enjoyed tem em being somewhat worried over her own future she collected 5 each from merchants and lesser amounts from families with in her pocketbook she shopped around for a fire truck the woman fire chief came back with the chemical truck it much but wh do she remarked with some haggling she persuaded the dealer to include 50 feet of hose she called together the volunteers who industriously polished and scrubbed the venerable truck into a semblance of what a smoke wagon should look like then they practiced on trial runs they practiced some ome more span away had changed there any more fires the first real test under fire occurred with a blaze in an automobile located near the fire station but the truck needed A portable extinguisher turned the trick holds rehearsals then the fire department heard one day about a fire at nearby near by spanaway Span away lake the volunteers steamed off in their truck the blaze was out by the time they arrived nowadays madame fire chief and her loyal crew have desultory fun with self made fires whenever mrs brewer worries over the mental trim of her volunteers she builds a fire in a properly safe place of course the fire consists of inner tubes and crankcase oil the action starts when mrs brewer lights a match the truck roars to the scene of the blaze and by that time the flames are shooting 15 feet into the air the the fire is out and the fun is over in in seven or eight minutes mrs brewer is not nattered flattered she says when someone inquires ii if she acts as siren as well as fire chief for the department |