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times when the Fire Bell at the Central
Police Barracks is rung may safely: be estimated as about twice out of every - five reports received there.
was
8.-
It has appeared above that a portion of the Police Fire Brigade. called out vir- The Deputy Superintendent of Police a Foreman from the Central Nation, and the men at No. 5 Station: and it has further been explained that it was not considered prudent to expend all the available strength of the Force on one Fire; more assistance until it was reported being required. It would be _
as
nor to send
difficult to conceive any system
more calculated to assist incendiaries
and robbers in their avocations than to
adopt a practice of invariably sending out all the effective force either of the Police or of the Fire Brigade to the -first reported scene of a Fire; and so to Keep no reserve for other exigencies. In ordinary weather aid
9.
for a second Fire can be called up from other Districts by Telegraph
by Troopers - but on the night in question the telegraph wires
were broken, and the streets
to
impassable for horse . It was therefore especially necessary be careful as to the disposition of the Reser:
10.
The same reasons apply
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