Fire Fighters: Barge Moved Away from Pier

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In just a minute we'll join Chief Cody in young Tim Collins on the deck of Mike Halloran's tugboat, which you remember is struggling the toe of the flaming oil barge away from the docks and river traffic.

The whole barge is a boiling blazing mass, so fierce the deck of the tugboat is almost unbearably hot. Mike Halloran hopes to get the raging inferno towed to a small island at the mouth of the harbor where it can be beached.

But now there's a new development that may make that impossible. We'll learn about it right after we hear this message. Let's go, firefighters! Let's join Chief Cody and Tim on the deck of Mike Halloran's tugboat, which is struggling against wind and tide to tow the blazing barge out of the stream of river traffic. The fireboat

under the command of Captain Jarvis is standing by trying to keep the blazing oil on the water from spreading to other boats on the river. But now let's join Chief Cody and Tim standing near the stern of the tug. The perspiration is pouring from them. The Chief has an anxious eye on the cable, stretched taut between the tug and the barge. But he merely says, I expect

We're about the hottest thing on the seven seas. You can say that again, Chief. We're on dry land, Tim. If we get the only turn a couple of companies to work on that bar. Yes, sir.

Makes you feel kind of helpless just standing around, doesn't it, Chief? Here comes my tolerance. Everything under control, Captain. Now, don't till we get that skull on the beach, it isn't, Chief. The shipping seems to be giving us a wide berth, huh?