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50575	Holmes, F. M. (Frederic Morell)	Firemen and Their Exploits With some account of the rise and development of fire-brigades, of various appliances for saving life at fires and extinguishing the flames.			.txt	text/plain	41116	1931	72	Fire-Escapes, Chemical Extinctors, Water-Towers, and the great "The new escape's close behind!" cried one of the men, as the engine rang into Great Marlborough Street fire-station, and the horsed escape five minutes in the biggest engine of the London Brigade, this result steam fire-engines were at work at the great Tooley Street fire. pressure of water only, without the use of engines, is very much After the conflagration, engines were employed in pumping water out of engines (55 being worked by steam), 155 fire-escapes, and other ladders, staff of 80 men of the London Fire-Engine Establishment of 1832. fire-escapes and police-ladders, 59 land steam fire-engines, 57 six-inch present escapes are great improvements on the old forms, and two men can Brigade; but, while London firemen make use of the escape as a point of A water-tower is sometimes placed with an engine or a hook-and-ladder improvements and great usefulness of the various engines and appliances	./cache/50575.txt	./txt/50575.txt