Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-01
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

| Frank j. Wagner chief of the fire de-
partment, is elated over the important
| changes made in the apparatus of the
| department the past year. and it is his
| hope that the changes will be continued
| until in the near future the department
will be equipped with only motor We
| hicles
The more important changes were made
| in the suburbs, where motor vehicles
| are able to pass over the roads in much
/ quicker time than the horse-drawn We
| hic.es, giving residents of the county
greater hope of security.
No. . chemical engine, at Congress
| Heights. was changed to No. % engine
! company and provided with a motor
/ com bination pumping engine and hose
wagon. A change was made with No. >
chemical company. at Langdon. 4 steam
| ire engine and hose wagon taking the
place of the chemical apparatus.
An aerial motor truck was placed in
service as No. l. truck company. at Ten
leytown, and No 20 engine company, To-
Gated i'll Tenleytown was equipped with
motor-propeled pumping engine and
hose carriage, in place OF a horse-drawn
apparatus.
Congress made provision for other SINH
lar improvements i'm the service one of
the more important ones being for the
placing of motor vehicles in engine
house No.. IL, at 18th and ID streets
northwest. Provision was also made for
doing away with horses of No. > engine
company. on 18th street northwest A
tractor. to displace horses of an aerial
truck. was provided for by Congress-
Not a member of the fire department
lost his life at a fire during the year.
The first month of the wear the depart-
ment received sixty-seven bell and forty
two local alarms. eleven of the forty-two
box alarms having been false. Ninety
eight actual fires caused loss of $1,000.
j. +. Bauinan was the only fireman
yI-f in lt-- -I,r. a
18th street southeast, was burned to
death as result of a gasoline fire. and
three other persons sustained slight
burns.
Record of February.
Fire losses in February totaled $780,
BIG. Deputy Chief Sullivan and Privates
NJ. b. Long. j. A. Smith and C. H. Ward
were injured in the line of duty, Wards
injury having resulted from the skidding
OF No. truck at Wisconsin avenue and
+ street northwest. Louis Johnson, col
ored, was fatally burned as a result of
the oyerturning of an oil heater and
four persons sustained slight burns. There
We're 100 alarms sounded during the
month.
Twelve of the 80 alarms received by
the lire department in March We're false,
and one man arrested on suspicion was
released without being taken to court
Losses during the month aggregated
SlS,5S2, the most serious loss having been
occasioned by fire that DESTROYED four
houses in Kenilworth. March 10 the fire
department was called upon to fight
nre near Silver Spring. Montgomery
county, Md. Capt Ernest Howard of No
engine company, Lieut. j. D. Green of
NO. engine company, Lieut.. A. s.
Haight of No. 81 engine company and
Privates George E. Weaver, George Poer-
ner and 0. III. Barteman sustained burns
hn I,rr.<
burned at fires were Rev. Joseph Z.
Gross, Leon Storks. Mason Colbert, Wal
ter Miles, George Conquest James Rus
sell, Mrs. Leon Cohen, John j. Keefe,
MRS. Josephine keefe, John b. Haslett
and Ef!ie Coleman.
-Four fires occurred during the month of
April which necessitated the sounding of
second alarm, the most disastrous one
Washington. Five fires involved losses
which aggregated $S,766, while ninety
two other fires did only $500 damage.
casualty of the month involved the
burning OF Miss Gertrude Murphy TWEEN
weight years old, at her home, 915 S
street northwest. the evening of April A.
Her parents. John and Mary Murphy.
sustained severe burns. Miss Murphy died
IN an effort to save her mother
Capt. Ernest Howard of No. engine
company. Private f. C. Waters and AS
sistant Drivers George J. Smith and
l. j. Williams were injured at fires,
and Capt. Howard. Assistant Driver
Smith and George w. Norris were in
jured in collision between No hose
wagon and an automobile at 9th and
X streets northwest.
Mrs Sarah T.. Robinson, seventy
seven years old. died as a result of
her dress igniting from a fire in her
yard at 42J I'd street northwest H.
+. Moore and Louis Beckerman were
slightly burned
Geological Survey Fire.