Cincinnati Sets Up Squad To Replace Salvage Corps
Fire Chief Dan F. Vogel of Cincinnati has set up a special squad in his department to do both fire fighting and salvage with the closing of Underwriters Salvage Corps operations there on June 30.
The 15 members of the new squad were selected from among 92 volunteers. Captain Albert Morel is in command of the unit. “This group will do whatever the battalion chief on the scene decides,” Chief Vogel said. “If he thinks they can do more good by going in and fighting a fire than by spreading tarpaulins, be will assign them to hose lines. It’s a trial run, but we think it will work.”
The Salvage Corps offered the city its three trucks and 400 tarpaulins as a gift. Two of the trucks will be stationed at Engine Co. 5, the third at Engine Co. 9.
