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Fire Chief Peter B. Carter reported six resignations, two deaths and one vacancy from the draft as the shipyards drew men from Camden's Fire Department; Lieutenant Walter Mertz was made captain and the Fire Committee appointed seven new firemen.
Philadelphia Inquirer briefs from December 16, 1917: officers elected by the Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association and the Associated Charities, and five-year-old Theodore Sipe of 405 Market Street in Cooper Hospital after possibly swallowing a marble.
The chemical engine of No. 7 Company, answering a fire alarm on Sycamore Street, sideswiped a Kaighn Avenue trolley and threw firemen Horace Cairns and George Boone to the street.