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Show Four Fire Calls Answered In Day The fire department of the city was summoned fotu- times last Saturday and to each alarm the men made exceptionally swift response I getting to the scenes of the fires in suprisingly short time. The first fire was the hay stack belonging to Jack Peck in the east fields, back of the Kenneth Singleton home. The stack of several tons of hay was ablaze and when the firemen reached reach-ed the fire no water was available. Chemicals were used until the supply sup-ply was exhausted and in the meantime mean-time some of the boys went some distance to locate water to turn down into the irrigation ditches to be pumped. This fire was extinguished extin-guished and the department was in the act of cleaning and refilling the chemical apparatus when the alarm was sounded again. This fire was at the Ren Roberts home on North Center street where a small stack of hay was ablaze. The men stayed on the job until no sign of smoke or fire was to be seen I and then left. To demonstrate the I treacherousness of hay fires, no smoke was seen issuing at 4 p. m. I when one of the firement again checked the stack and at 5 p. m. another alarm was sounded and the department called back again. Sparks which had remained covered over in the ashes and fanned by the breeze had ignited the hay again. Saturday at about 9 p. m. the siren again shrieked forth and; the department was summoned to the Charles Walker place in the Third ward. The pipe from the hover stove in the Walker coops had set fire to the roof and a hole about two feet in diamater was burned through the roof. There was very little damage done by any of the three fires fortunately. o |