Excerpt from Fighting a Fire This little volume, revised and brought thoroughly up-to-date, in text and pictures, is offered as a modest appreciation of the work of the New York firemen. The task of these men, though modified somewhat by improved appliances, remains just as heroic and picturesque as it did when the first edition of this book was issued in 1897. In fact, this original edition, in text, if not in pictures, could have stood as a fairly correct description of the physical workings of the New York Fire Department to-day, for though equipment and apparatus have changed considerably in the past few years, there has been no material change in the actual work of extinguishing fires. No better substitute than water as a medium for stopping fire has yet been discovered. New systems for supplying it in greater volume and devices for directing it more accurately at the heart of a fire have done much to aid the firefighter in his Avork; but his calling remains just as perilous and as full of dangerous uncertainties as it was twenty-five years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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