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Show A Science, A Craft, And An Art In the pioneer days, many communities com-munities had laws requiring every one to keep buckets filled with water in their homes, as a defense against fire. Today almost every progressive community, large or small, has an up-to-date, well-equipped fire department, de-partment, with a trained personnel person-nel and the best of apparatus. These two methods of fire protection pro-tection are very different, But both stemmed from the same attitude at-titude of mind. Both arise from the necessity of protecting live? and property from the ever-present danger of fire. The fire buckets were followed by crude hand pumps. Then came the "steamer, and at last the motor-propelled fire engine of today. The science of fire control is a genuine science, that has gradually gradual-ly been perfected through hundreds hun-dreds of years of trial and error, success and failure and ceaseless: experiment. The building of first class, standard stan-dard apparatus has been a fin? art as well as a difficult craft. Most of us think of a fire engine as the by-product of the manufacture manu-facture of trucks. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Apparatus Appar-atus that is made that way often proves a very untrustworthy wea-; pon In the war against fire, fail- j ing when most it is needed. In the case of the standard makers. 1 every part that goes into the com-pleed com-pleed engine is designed and built with but one thought in mind stamina and uninterrupted service in fighting fire. The evolution of fire engines is not done. It will reach new standards stand-ards of efficiency and service. Manufacturers of standard apparatus appa-ratus have saved the nation billions bil-lions of dollars in property values and tens of thousands of Irreplaceable Irre-placeable lives. |