CONFLAGRATION PREVENTED BY ROCHESTER, N. Y., DEPARTMENT Five Alarms Sounded for Blaze Which Started in Store and Involved Five Other Business Places ROCHFSTER, N. Y., had its first five-alarm fire in five years recently when an early morning fire visited that city, leaving an estimated loss of approximately $300,000. The first alarm was transmitted by a citizen at 5:53 a. m. followed by a 3-2 at 6:08 a. m. At 6:35 a. m. a 3-3 alarm was transmitted by George N. Fletcher. Chief of the Department. Sizing up the extent of the blaze at 7:00 a m., Chief Fletcher ordered a 5-5-5 alarm, giving him a total of about 200 men, thirty-five pieces of apparatus, and about twenty-five members of the 1’rotcetives, a volunteer organization. The fire was believed to have started in the basement of a Linen Mart by a defective heating unit and was said to have had…
