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~TEw ENGLAND 2~SSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
The police handle the situation fairly good, until the college is opened,
and streets are all parked up again, then.
MOD~.RA~rOI~ WooI~I~.¥: Incidentally, the Chief is doing a grand job,
with his auxiliary firemen, too!
Now, I would like to get some of these Chiefs from up Maine and up
in the hinderlands, say a few words on this important subject. Is Chief Koltonski,
Rutland, Vt., here? Is anybody here from South Portland, Maine?
Chief, you have had the problem in the suburbs of Portland. What about it?
CI-I~.F Jos~: We haven’t been disturbed with much of it. We did have
a case in a neighboring city, where they covered about f6urteen miles in
about fourteen minutes, and then we covered the last two thousand feet in
about a half an hour. The fire had been going for quite a while, and the
area was covered with cars.
MODERATOR WOO;LLEY: In these areas where you may have oil fires, as
happens sometimes in South Portland in that area, I am quite certain that
you will agree that when a column of smoke goes up five miles, into the
air, or at night, you are really in trouble, then, and we may say that we get
some cooperation and help, but it is pretty serious. Walter, have you a few
words, for us? .
CI~I~I~ M~ss~R of Keene, N. H.:. I think you would like to hear from
Ralph Seavey on this matter.
CI-II~.F S~Av~.¥: I thought that Walter might "have said something in regard
to Ray, where the Motor Vehicle Department will cooperate one hunv
dred per cent in the State of New Hampshire, if we will take any number of
any car interfering in the operation of our department, and send that number
in to the Motor Vehicle Department, he will investigate with them, and, if
warranted, suspend the license for thirty or sixty days.
We have found that by taking them to Court, it seems that everybody
but the Fire Chief has all kinds of money, and they don’t care whether they
have to pay fines of $20.00 or $25.00 or not. But, if they have to lose their
license for thirty or sixty days, we won’t see them again.
MoD~.~A~rOI~ WooI~I~.¥: Thank you very much, Chief. I wish we had you
here yesterday.
CHI~.I~ W~.I~I~S; I would like to ask if this Association could take action,
with respect to representation in those States where there is a tendency to
not give too much attention to fire parking, on the highways.
I think that if it came, o~cially from the Assodiation, that more co~
operation with respect to reporting of numbers and the action of our Brother
Chief on the left, here, Chief Seavey, if we -could take the license away for
a short time, that-would be a very great help, I know.
MOlS~.I~ATO~ WooI~I~Y: Just as Ray got up to speak, two of our Panel
members handed me a memorandum saying:
"Would this not be a good time and a good subject for a resolution
by this organization?"
Again, I am not in a position to Offer recommendations for a resolution
at all. But, it is evident that a resolution or some-~movement on the part of
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