The cheers were given as the two volunteerfiremen came down the ladder, but there were no speeches made in reply.
Behind them the fire still raged at the oil tanks, but firemen appeared to have checked its spread.
The walls of two of the tanks had given way and Tim and Ralph could see the firemen fighting desperately to stop the spread of the flames.
The Kid was the butt of all the firemen on account of his size, but he kept the cleanest engine, and was never left nor late, and seemed more and more attached to me--and I to him.
The firemen at the foot of the platform rested on their bayonets; and Binet, motionless, stood with out-turned elbows, the point of his sabre in the air.
Firemen and volunteer helpers were, hurrying in and out the wide south door.
The hosecart stopped with a jerk that must have surprised the horses, firemen leaped down and in a twinkling the foremost had smashed in the big glass door.
Five minutes later, the big red hosecart, with gong ringing, firemen shouting and dogs barking, was dashing up the street.
The entire superstructure seemed now just like a gigantic, topless furnace; and of course it was no longer possible for even the firemen to venture inside.
In a very few seconds, the hasty Janitor had opened the lower door of the chute and, with the firemen standing by, was calmly hauling her out by her feet--Oh!
Water was pouring upon the goods' shed now, freezing almost as fast as it left the hose-pipes, but the firemen had not reached the little shack.
The firemen would have to attack the blaze from the street end of the dock, anyway.
San Michele was reached as the sun was setting, when the firemen again received their burden and bore it to the principal mortuary chapel.
Municipal Guards lined the entrance of the Palace, and a Guard of Honour, consisting of City firemen in full dress, stood flanking the coffin during the service, which was attended by friends and many residents.
Firemen came running with ladders that nobody climbed, and pails of water, that the firemen carried round and round, in and out, like crazy creatures.
Long before a ferry boat brought some firemen and a hand engine from the city there was nothing left to save.
When wood ran short, the boat made a landing at a suitable place, and all the firemen and deck hands went on shore to cut down trees and chop them up to cordwood size.
The poor devils of deck hands and firemen were exhausted and dripping with perspiration when their hard task was over.
A few fortunate soldiers got the firemen of the boat to boil their coffee for them.
The neighbors and townspeople, the firemen and the crowd, stole silently off and left them there, but Dr.
Joel, when he saw the firemen on hand, sprang for the roof again.
In the fire room the firemen and coal-passers are heaping up the furnaces, a couple of men hurry away to attend to the fire mains, and, standing by in readiness for duty, are the engineers and crew of the off watch.
The prize crew, consisting of six seamen, some firemen and engineers, and officered by Lieutenant Duncan, went over and took possession of our second prize in one day.
To a sensible mind, the fire engine andfiremen should bring a feeling of safety.
All doors should be unlocked so that the firemen can have free access without breaking them in and causing delay.
She knows where all fire proof doors are located, where the water pails are kept and she can render the firemen great service in directing them to a more advantageous position.
The firemen hold this net and persons dropping into it can be saved.
Courtenay noticed that there were only four other sufferers in the saloon: Three were firemen injured by the explosion.
A number of sailors and firemen were striving to launch a boat.
It doesn't look bad," she tried to reassure them, "and the firemen have it under control.
The firemen dragged their line of hose from the chemical tank back to the street and they crowded into the smoke-filled rooms.
For the conduct of the trains which their locomotives pull, both engineers and firemen are directly responsible to the operating department.
I've a committee from the firemen coming in to see me.
It is a task that fairly calls for human arms of steel; for some firemenhandle some 17 tons of coal in a single run.
She sometimes went to the social gatherings affected by her father's friends, Odd Fellows' and Druids' balls and the festivities with which the firemen refreshed themselves after their toils and dangers.
But Freddie could see some of the firemen at work, and he could see the engines shining in the light from the fire and the glare of the electric lamps.
It's there for any one to ring who finds the boat on fire, and when the bell is rung all my firemen hurry to put out the blaze," said the captain.
The author of the mischief was rescued; she lived on the ground floor, and the firemen had gained access to her room through the window from which the smoke was first seen bursting, thus giving the alarm of fire to the neighbourhood.
At the present momentfiremen and others are out on that ghastly aggregation of woodwork and human kind jammed against the unyielding mass of arched masonry.
The débris wedged against the big Pennsylvania Railroad stone bridge is still burning, and the efforts of the firemen to quench or stay the progress of the flames are as futile as were those of Gulliver's Lilliputian firemen.
The fire in the drift above the bridge is under control and is being rapidly smothered by the Pittsburgh firemen in charge of the work.
Just before me a group of red-capped firemen are directing a stream of water upon such portions of the mass as can be reached from the shore.
By the time the firemen reached the scene the whole west end of the building was enveloped in flames and a section of the slate roof had already caved in.
They've sent for the firemen to see what damage was done.
All this time the firemen were attacking the fire upon every side, but with no visible effect.
The firemen keep a steady stream playing through the broken panes, and fight fiercely with their axes to reach him.
Two or three firemensprang forward, but it was too late.
Firemen got L10, and trimmers L8 per month, with overtime in addition like the sailors.
At daybreak all hands were astir, the firemen working like sooty gnomes down in their gloomy pit to get steam up, while dense volumes of smoke poured from our funnels, gladdening the eyes of all hands.
So heavily did the time hang when at sea, that I took in washing from both sailors and firemen at the rate of three shillings and sixpence per dozen, and thus earned a lot of extra money.
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