Word: firemanning
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...Prague, a fireman on duty at the Pardubitz municipal theatre was knocked to the floor by the descending iron safety curtain which kept on coming as he lay on the floor, hit his neck, decapitated him, rolled his head into the orchestra...
...Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway cuts a winding steel path through the forests of Southern Ontario. Near Mile 115 it is sharply hemmed by the Agawa River on one side, an 800-ft. cliff on the other. Approaching this spot on his regular freight run one day last week, Fireman Graham McLeod saw a big grey timber wolf loping down the track about 500 yd. ahead. He knew what to do. As the train caught up, he crawled out on the cowcatcher, seized the wolf by its tail. Strong teeth slashed his fingers badly before he got his prize into...
...Brooklyn, arrested for turning in false fire alarms, Julia Callahan, 27, housemaid, said she would keep on until the City of New York indemnified her for live teeth knocked out by a fireman in 1929 when she playfully turned in a false alarm...
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...Manhattan, a clinic patient sitting in St. Vincent's Hospital waiting room late at night saw another patient leap suddenly into the air, cry out, "I'm a fireman! I'm a fireman!" and fall back dead. Examination showed he had a dagger between his shoulder blades...