The Norwood Fire Department was on the jump Saturday and yesterday. An alarm Saturday afternoon was from box 59, corner of Walpole and Wilson sts, and the departments long run for a serious brush fire In Baldufs Grove, threatening German Turnverein Hall and the bowling alleys.
The still alarms were:
At 9:30 in the forenoon, grass fire in Smith’s fields on Broadway;
at 10, ground fire on the railroad bank, Lenox St; at noon,
grass fire in Bird’s field, back of the tannery;
at 3, a fire in the town dump;
at 4:50, fire in Fales Woods, Prospect St;
at 10:30, ground fire on Hill St.
At 9 came a call from the George H. Morrill Printing Ink factory for a fire discovered by the watchman in the blackhouse, where the lampblack is stored and which gave the firemen some work carrying out the bags.
Yesterday forenoon at 9 there was a still alarm for a fire in the house of John Zimmer at 13 Lyman pl, caused by a curtain and easy chair catching fire from a spark, it is believed;
at 10:30 the Sharon Heights firemen telephoned the alarm for a fire in Norwood in the woods between Nahatan and Winter sts;
at 7 last evening, the department again was summoned on a still alarm for a blaze in the Big Oaks, back of the filter beds and Gus Scherer’s farm.
It was a strenuous 48 hours for Chief Boyden and his men.
(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)