A FIRE SALVAGE CORPS.
In San Francisco, in addition to most efficient fire brigades, they have also tire patrols, or salvage corps, and improvements in many other respects upon the fire police organisation of this and other .New Zealand cities. It was formed by the San Francisco underwriters with the special object of saving property from fire and water, not the extinction of the fire nor the saving of life, though in both these it. frequently renders valuable aid. The patrol has one station, the staff consisting of a captain with twelve men, with horses, waggons, and tarpaulins, the stock of tarpaulins alone being valued at L3OO. On arrival at the fire —and they have all electrical appliances to inform them instantaneously of its outbreak—the men rapidly gather all the articles of furniture or goods in danger of being consumed, make a huge pile of them in the centre of the room, and cover them over with the fireproof tarpaulins. The fire.may blaze away, but they are safe. At the first fire attended by this patrol L 15,000 worth of property was saved for the underwriters. By this systematic method of working the destruction of property by rough handling is reduced to a minimum.
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Evening Star, Issue 5074, 10 June 1879, Page 4
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204A FIRE SALVAGE CORPS. Evening Star, Issue 5074, 10 June 1879, Page 4
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