The firemen of the town of Coimbra. about 150 miles north of Lisbon, decided last week to hold a realistic drill. Hundreds of spectators, out to celebrate Portugal's Holy Queen religious festival, gathered, and 20 youngsters, many of them sons of the firemen, clambered into an old four-story frame building. The boys were paid 45ยข to play the part of "tenants." The firemen, having doused the structure with gasoline, retired to their station 400 yards away to await the alarm.
A torch was applied, the alarm sounded, the firefighters raced to the...
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