Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salvage corps maintained by the insurance companies, and working with the fire-department of a city.
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In most cases, these uncontrollable fires started from small conflagrations that could readily, with proper fire-patrol, have been put out.
Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison
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