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it was
more than ever, his duty to summon the entire brigade so that it might be assembled at a central point way the Cross Roads Station, and there make in the every preparation, get steam up Steum Engeires, have tanks hoses and ladders prepared, in fact have all the wen and appliances ready for action in
any
direction at a moments.
moments notice.
but not one.
A
" of these preparations were made, nor was, there any attempt to make them and therefore Mr. Deane's remarks regarding the inadvisability of sending out the whole force of the Brigade
fire lose all their weight
Los one
The should be able to prove that the Brigade was ready and equipped to
move out in detachments or otherwise
I disusters
to cope with the expected
as they happened.
The Statement that perfect confidence
placed in the deputy Superintendent:
was.
of Police at once
forwarding an application
it
for further aid if it
r
should prove
quisite is a most extraordinary or
the Fire
was
not a
suppositions one
Known facts
it and its locale were known
Central Station,
at the
could be seen and
Ov
w as
es
the glare
Sikh Constable
in the charge room with a prisoner.
which he had
arrested with a
Bosc
in his possession close to the scene
Mercer Streets
of the fire, which was
how
For
A
messenger, to have gone from there to the Central Station
On
such
a
night and aid arrive back to Mercer Street certainly
from three quarters of
an
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