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PUMP RACES - 2
time , that a six-man team of
firemen OAS laid their hoses and begun pumping water
was 18-and-5-tenths seconds, by the Cockerell Hill
fire depa tment in 1949. The
forgotten Five teams, mostly wives of firemen, show
plenty of hustle. The girls from DeSoto, in south
Dallas county, make it 24-and-7-tenths seconds, which
belle's
turns out to be second to the from Rendon;
their time., this afternoon, was 24-seconds flat.
AWARD Mrs. Dodie Burns, widow of the late Dallas fire
marshall who established the award, makes the
presentation to the winning men's team, from Garland,
- which laid a fast hose -- 19-and-5-tenthsseconds. Richardson was second.
Im. I IN, I I I No I V- 0 - 0- -Nownsumblo-
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Pump races], script, October 25, 1959; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861242/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.