Flames Fear Him

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 6

Flames Fear Him

! UpLANG! Clang!"— and DeputyV^ Superintendent Joseph Salmon,

of the Dunedin Fire Brigade, is dressed and on the job before the alarm-bell has properly started ringing.

For 42 years the deputy-superinten-dent has fought the fire-fiend; and, even now, when he has left the sixty mark well behind, he can balance on the dizzy, creaking ledge of a burning building and fight his way through blinding, choking smoke with a nerve and strength which the majority of young men might very well envy.

His dapper figure and cheerful face, with its Captain Kettle beard, are a respected and familiar sight m Dunedin's super-efficient fire station.

Salmon started away back m those years when a fire-engine was a woefully uncertain contrivance which often lacked the necessary horses to flrag it to the scene of the fire.

To-day huge engines of . immense horse-power, with their exhaust-pipes screaming a defiance at fire, can hurl themselves m a few minutes from one end of the city to the other.