The Fire-Bug: Chapter Three
Chapter Three: The Victims
In January of 1855, after enduring all the activity of the previous year, there was nothing but praise for Newburyport’s Fire Department and how it had responded to each incident. Though some had decried the expense years earlier, they sang a very different tune now:
“The security of our City, against any extensive fire, from the fact of our having so well organized and faithful a body of men, ready and willing at all times, to be at their posts in time of danger, for the protection of the property of our citizens, is worth more to the city than many times the cost of the department.”
This praise, naturally, led to the various fire associations requesting improvements and upgrades to their fire halls and equipment—in order to keep up their excellent service, of course. Might as well, while they had the good will.
