Smoke-eater

A. H. Strom, the “firemen’s friend,” who has been serving coffee and sandwiches to the smoke-eaters at practically every fire of importance in the last twenty years, also spoke, as did Tommy Allen, Civil War Veteran, and former fireman.

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In fact, six pieces of apparatus were called out as a result of the second and third alarms and the smoke was so thick that even some of the so-called “smoke-eaters” were overcome in their desperate efforts to check it.

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The blaze was yet a fern fire, but it was what the smoke-eaters called a “hot job.”

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In his southern drawl, Fire Chief Chase Talbot addressed the thirty or so smoke-eaters assembled in the academy classroom, the smile on his face warm and affectionate.

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