NEAFC 31st Annual Conference.pdf - New England Association of ...

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEF~ [
bers come from service clubs and other organizations which take a keen interest in
fire prevention, in order to assist their community.
In the past f~w years, more and more interest has been shown in fire prevention
throughout Canada, and with the large number of entries, the competition has been
keen. While our department has been either first, second or third in the last ten years,
we do not intend to relax our efforts to protect life and property, and will continue
to try to be one o.f the leading cities in Canadia in tire prevention.
In closing, Mr. President and members of the NeW England Association of Fire
Chiefs, may I again thank your group for the invitation to ;be in attendance, and I trust
that we may see you all in Toronto in September! (Applause.)
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: The next subject is presented by W. J. Scott, O. B. E., Q. C.
Fire Marshal of Ontario, :Canada, and is titled "Federal Fire Forums." Mr. Scott.
(Applause.)
MRI SCOTT: President and Gentlemen, I very cordially invite you to come up and
meet with us in Toron,to beginning September 1~. It is only six or seven hundred.
miles for .most of you--two days’ driving on good roads, and our roads in Toronto are
just as wide-and just as straight. Chief McAlpine was up there and spoke at a meeting
I was conducting, and the Chief had one very unusual happening. Whenever he gets to
a strange city, he looks up in the telephone directory for all the McAlpines. He found
two of them in the telephone booF, and he had quite a chat with a fellow who came
from Oklahoma. His; father came from the same part of the state, and they had quite
a discussion whether he was a second or third cousin. .George said, "I have got to
leave for dinner and I want to call the other McAlpine, and see if he is another relative."
(Laughter.)
It is a pleasure to be back here to. the New England~ Association. Chief McAlpine
and I were reminded that the first year he became Fire Chief was the first year I was
at the New England Associaticn. During the wartime, visits were rather interrupted~,
and so this is a very happy occasion and my wife and I are appreciating it very much.
Now she knows why I gain so much weight: After being here two days she went
downtown and bought three new dresses. I hope none of the rest of y.ou run into the
same situation. The last time was. three years ago, and I had just finished spending a
couple of weeks with the U. S. Army. Since that time I have been privileged to take
the Staff Course at the Fed;oral Administration at Washington, and last year I was: in
the United Kingdom taking the British Course, and I visited in other parts of the
Country.
I have two albums on Europe which I will pass around. One shows the British
Fire Colleges and one of the Swedish Fire Colleges. I want to say, based upon what
they are doing in Europe, we in ’Canada had a rather unique experiment late last fall.
The Canadian Government brought together the Fire Cl~iefs of all the leading cities
across ’Canada, and they went the entire week discussing how professionals would
hand,le any emergency. We had not only our own people, but we were very happy and
p~:ivileged to have one of your New England Chiefs there--Henry Thomas, First Vice-
President, New England Internaticnal, and also a man from Seattle, Washington. We
also had Fire Chiefs from Detroit, Michigan. and from Buffalo.
We discussed the p~?oblems which are certainly joint between Canada and the
United States. No enemy bomber coming over would recognize the border..:._~__fi_.rg_
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