Northington General Hospital Fire Department

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Title

Northington General Hospital Fire Department

Subject

World War II
Fire departments

Description

Scenes of a fireman's daily routine at Northington General Hospital are told here in a story of words and pictures. Photo No. 1 was posed especially for the News. Kneeling in the front row are: Maj. Joseph Feeley, Capt. Lucious Harrison (the Fire Department is under the jurisdiction of these Post engineers), Fire Chief Alan Rayfield, Assistant chief Henry Ryan, Floyd Strickland, William Brown, Claude Wallace, Homer Wright, Barney Rallare and Frank Foster.
Back Row: James Glover, Olin Steward, Claudie Porter, Russell Lovelady, Melvin Boteler, Frank Thomas, Charles Burns, Ray DeLoach, Woodrow Prewitt, and Lucious White. In extreme rear are Charles Parsons and Lee Martin.
Photo No. 2 shows Foster and Wright performing regular morning truck checkup and cleaning job.
Photos 3 and 4 are close parallel to GI life. Calisthenics and bed-making are part of the fireman's daily life.
In photo 5, Fire Chief Ryan gives some pointers to the Drill Class of the 4447th SCU on fire-fighting and prevention.
Photos 6,7 and 8 reveal periodical inspections made in the interest of fire prevention and keeping equipment in tiptop shape. [Photo] 6 shows the checking of dry pipe valves and air compressors, controling the sprinkler systems. Water pressure from one of the hydrants is checked in [photo] 7. In the last photo, Claude Wallace makes sure the alarm is working.

Source

Personal Collection of Whitney Telle

Publisher

Northington General Hospital News

Date

August 18, 1944

Type

Newspaper

Identifier

102

Coverage

Tuscaloosa (AL)

Text

Northington General Hospital News

Original Format

Newspaper