New Fire Signals Will Be Initiated
Trial Friday Night
All New Signals will be sounded at 7:45 Friday night for Instruction
A plan is being promulgated by Fire Chief E. O. Byrd which will, when adopted, eradicat the nuisance in
Culver and vicinity, of callinf central to find out exact location of a fire.
Mr. Byrd has arranged a system of signals, one of which will be blown for each fire and which will
give the proximity of the blaze.
Next Friday night, the new signals will be tried on the community in order that the people may know
how they will sound. The blast will be b lown beginning at 7:45 p.m. SInce there are six signals, it will
probably take about five or ten minutes to complet them. A short interval, will be allowed between each
signal in order that there will be no confusion.
The members of the fire department will gather at the town hall at 7:30 p.m. to be in readiness in case
there should be a fire at that time.
After the signals have been blown the department will take the truck out near the lake to practive on
the new pump which was recently bee installed on the fire truck
The new signals
The new signals are as follows:
ONE blow of the siren ab out the length that is geven at noot nour - signals a fire in the
district sout of Toner avenue, eas of ohio street and north of the Evangelical chrurch street
TWO blasts signals a fire in the district within the city limits
THREE blasts signals a fire inthe dirstrict within the city kimits and west of Ohio Street
FOUR blasts for the district within the city limits and south of the Evangelical chrch corner, or Mill
street
One one extremely long blast of the whistle denotes a fire in the academy district.
One long balst and one short blast of the whistle denoted a fire in the county near Culver or for
cottages around thhe lake.
Is a good move
This is a plan that has been much meeded in the community. In the past, the whistle blew once for a fire
no matter where the fire was located, and people, being away from home or away from their places
of business were naturall anxious toknow just where the blaze was.
This caused an influx of calls at the telephone office. As a result, the telphone operators were unable to
distinguish between calls from the firemen and calls from other persons. This will undoubtedly be a
great help.