Selma Fire Chief Killed at Fire Fire Chief W. L. Pitts, of Selma, Ala., lost his life along with two others on November 27 while battling a five-hour fire that raged through a building in nearby Uniontown. The Selma firemen answered a call to augment the fourteen volunteers of the Uniontown Fire Department who were battling the blaze, and Chief Pitts, along with two others, was crushed to death when a wall of the building collapsed. Six others, including two more Selma firemen, were injured.
