Pacific municipalities (1910) (14753450786)

Identifier: pacificmunicipal232419101911leag (find matches)
Title: Pacific municipalities
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: League of California Municipalities League of Pacific Northwest Municipalities
Subjects: Municipal government
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Municipalities
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library



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e in certain communities the horse-drawnapparatus. It can be utilized to convey persons injured to hospitals; as a fuelwagon, fuel can be furnished to engines more expeditiously, especially when theengines are some distance from the base of supply; if necessary it can be dis-patched to stations for the relay hose held in reserve, thereby save calling extraapparatus to the fire and jeopardizing the protection already minimized. It has proven a great success in handling brush and grass fires. As a rulethese fires occur in outlying districts remote from the fire limits, and the fact thatthe auto combination can get to this fire before it has spread to any great extentand extinguish it, return to station and be ready immediately for the next run,demonstrates the superiority of the auto over the horse-drawn apparatus for suchservice. Another advantage while not in the fire fighting line, is important, the ab-sence of horses from the station eliminates the extra labor for their care and the
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g PACIFIC MUNICIPALITIES risk of loss by injury or sickness, also the smell and noise which is an improve-ment in conditions appreciated by a fireman. In housing the apparatus economy appears in favor of the auto apparatus, aspace ten by twenty feet is sufficient to house it; no stalls, hay and grain rooms,or extra plumbing, heating or sewer connections are required. The purchase price of the motor propelled apparatus will exceed the horse-drawn apparatus two or three thousand dollars, but this sura is insignificant whenthe cost of maintaining the horse apparatus is considered, and the fact that theauto will efficiently cover three times the territory that the horse drawn apparatus will. In the case of a general alarm the auto apparatus can be concentrated forservice expeditiously which is not true in the case of the horse-drawn apparatus. The Vancouver fire department, one of the early adventurers in the auto field,after exhaustive tests under every condition imaginable, are equippin