fire company

At a time when an errant spark could burn down half of the city’s wood-framed buildings, the city paid cash rewards to the volunteer fire companies that successfully doused the flames.

The sheriff’s office said that deputies were called to the fire company, which was serving as a polling site, on Monday afternoon, because two people inside the polling area had refused to wear masks.

A fire company was out trying its engine and hoses, and followed of course by a squad of the idle and unwashed.

But the other fire company thought there really was a fire, an' they come out with their engine an' begun to squirt on the house.

Members of Hecla fire company will please take notice of trade.

The Fire Company had disbanded, and nearly every one had grown rich enough to own a shot-gun.

A spell ago—'long in the fall, I guess it was—I was over to Alton, an' there was a fire company paradin'.