Cleveland Fire Notes
Battalion Chief John O’Neil on Labor Day was called by excited citizens in the southeastern part of the city to extricate a child, five years old, whose inquisitiveness caused it to put its arm down the discharge outlet of a fire hydrant. Chief O’Neil by his good judgment and perseverance, coupled with the aid of an ice cream cone to keep the child quiet, after three hours’ work succeeded in breaking the shell of the hydrant with a sledge hammer and freeing the child without injury.
