The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-03-26
FIRE ALARMS
KEEP FIRE BOYS
ON THE JUMP
TRIO OF FIRES IN SHORT TIME
FULFILS THE PROPHECY OF
THREE In SUCCESSION"

The old, old saying that when there
is one fire alarm sounded In TINS city
there will be two more sounded With
in a short time was fulfilled Tuesday
shortly after noon when the depart
ment was called out for the third time
since Friday morning, this time TO
subdue a blaze in the rear OF Wards
Cash and Carry Market and which
was caused by tub of tar boiling
over and ignitfng. .
The fire alarm sounded at about .
o'clock Friday morning and called tne
department to the home of Mrs. Lole
Greenop where sparks from the CHM
nev had fallen on the roof and ignited
il. The department made quick
run to the scene and with the aid OF
the chemical solution quickly had the
fire extinguished. No damage was
done outside of that caused by the fire
while had the department not been
equipped with the chemical apparatus
and had it been necessary for them
to have thrown water to extingulsh
the flames, the damage without a
doubt would have amounted to several
hundreds of dollars.
Saturday morning at about o'clock
the department went out In response
to an alarm which had been sent in
fer a fire which was burning on the
roof of the house occupied by Elijah
Kemper and family ON Root street.
Although the outfit got there quickly
the fire had made such headway that
practically the entire roof, together
with the contents in the upper rooms
were destroyed by the fire. The
contents in the lower part of the
house were saved, but the loss is a
heavy one for Mr.. Kemper and family.
Tuesday afternoon at about 200
o'clock an alarm of fire was sounded
and great clouds of black smoke were
noticed coming out of the rear of the
market owned by Ward & Schlegel on
Bridge street. From the way the
smoke rolled up it was suite evident
that a disastrous conflagration was
under way and was making rapid head
way at detroying the town, but when
the department got there and let the
chemical solution loose into the mass
of smoke and flames, it was soon a
thing of the past and practically no
damage was done outside of the fact
that tub of perfectly good tar which
was in preparation for use on the roof
of the Nelson building, was destroyed
as were also couple of empty chick
en- shipping crates standing nearby.
Clyde Nielsen Of Greenville had
come down for the purpose of cleaning
up the alley in the rear of the Nielsen
block and while here he was also GO
ing to put some tar onto some poor
places in the roof. He and his helper
had made an improvised furnace of
rocks and on this they had set a wash
tub of tar. 1t was just about full
and when it began to boil, it kept
right on until it boiled over and the
tar running down the side of the tub
into the fire. ignited and the flames
shot skyward to a height of so feet
or more. 1t made an awful smoke
and gave everybody good scare for
it looked as if one of the principal
business blocks in the city was doom
ed, but the chemical made short work
of it.
The new auto truck which the coun-
Gil purchased has shown its real worth
in more ways than one and each time
the chemical is used and extinguishes
es a fire in short order, it demon
strates its worth once more.