CSPAN3 Reel America Your Fire Department - 1949 July 12, 2024
This man needs the Fire Department. Yes, lots of other people need the Fire Department too. People all over the city are reporting fires. Little fires, big fires, everybody wants to report a fire. Well, not everybody, but that is the way it seems to the firemen of los angeles who respond to 23,000 alarms each year. Most fires are the direct result of carelessness or indifference. It is because of these shortcomings on the part of a few that the majority of people banded together in villages, towns, and metropolitan cities have been forced to provide defense against fire to protect their lives ...