Tribune photo PREPARATION -Preparing for demonstrations on Fire Services Day next Saturday are (from top) Oakland Firemen Don Muat, Al Sayers, Mark Jurich, Al Grasso and Capt. Dorman Silves, using "Pompier ladder." Firemen Get Set For Open House Oakland's Fire Department is shining its rigs and gear this week in preparation for a citywide, public inspection of all its facilities on Saturday, May 4. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight has designated May 4 as Fire Services Day, and urges "all Californians to observe it by becoming better acquainted with|ing the role firemen play in community life." Every 'tirehouse in the city will hold open house, from 1 to p.m. Firemen will escort visitors through the stations, describing their services, appara-oped tus and equipment. At Children's Fairyland, Mosswood Park and Arroyo Viejoling Park, large rigs will be exhibited and firemen will explaining details, during the same hours. Objectives of the day are to acquaint the public with both the citizens' place in fire protection, and the variety of ices available from local fire departments. PROMOTERS OF DAY Statewide, the major promoters of Fire Services Day are the California Fire Chief's Assn. the Rural Firemens' Assn., and the State Junior Chamber of Commerce. Oakland's battalion chief Cecil Ross is directing the Day's observance here, "There has been a lack of public awareness of what our department is doing," Ross said. "We perform more than a dozen services other than fire fighting." Number one on the list is fire prevention, the department's| most important function. Every structure in the city, residential commercial, is visited at least|a once a year by a fireman trained to recognize hazards. RESPIRATOR SERVICES No less than 1,500 emergency calls for respirator service come in each year for victims of heart attack, electric shock, smoke inhalation, asphyxiation or strangulation. Public information services also are available. Speakers armed with educational films preach fire prevention and safety to any interested group or club, for the asking. School children frequently| visit tire Houses for first-hand information. Other services are: Arson detection, training and supervision| of civilian defense volunteer fire fighters, water rescues, cleaning of gasoline and other inflammables from streets after accidents, flooded basement pumpIng, gas leak checks, issuance TELESCOPE -The ladder on which the • firemen are climbing telescopes to 65 feet. The men are (from top) Don Muat, Al Sayers, Mark Jurich, Al Grasso and Capt. Dorman D. Silves, at Oakland drill tower. FRATERNAL Sons of Norway to Host Bay Lodges SONS OF NORWAY, Bjornson|O. Lodge No. 14, will be host to three other Oakland area lodges Tuesday for the official visit of their supreme president, J. Steen Jacobsen. Initiation of 40 I candidates by the honored guest will take place at the meeting, schedsta-uled for 8 p.m. at Ebel Hall, 1440 Harrison St. Forty women in Norwegian costumes will perform as a drill team the ceremony. Guest lodges for the affair are Andrew Furuseth 1 No. 49, Richmond; Snorre No. 61, Hayward; and Concordia No. 70, Concord. Arrangements for the event are being made by Jacob Jacobsen. ST. CYRIL'S MEN'S CLUB will stage its "Cotton Frolic" Saturday at the Parish Hall, 3200 62nd Ave. A barbecued chicken| dinner followed by dancing to al four -piece orchestra is planned, according to the club's president, William Logemann. CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA, Court Our Lady of Good Counsel, will celebrate its 17th anniversary Thursday with dinner party. The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Cottage Dining Room, 9925 E. 14th St. Guests of honor will include the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Riley, Mrs. Elsie Clancy, vice state regent; Mrs. E. Wettstein, state monitor, and Mrs. Dr. Citron DENTIST DENTAL PLATES LOW PRICES NO MONEY DOWN is of fire permits, bicycle licensing and registration of voters. HAS MANY SKILLS Modern fire service has so grown the bucket brigade, pole-sliding days that Oakland's. fireman is professional many skills. But the advances in fire with|ing equipment and techniques are constantly challenged by introduction of new fire created by modern science. These are solved training and practice, in program originated and by Fire Chief James Sweeney Jr. When firemen are not their houses and equipment between alarms, they are classes or exercises, or are doing "homework" by the training division. DRILL TOWER Classes are held at the serv-tion houses, at practice throughout the eity, or at drill tower at MacArthur and Buell St. There are many courses. the past year, 56 different jects have been covered. include all branches of fighting strategy, general draulics, artificial respiration and first aid, radio communicahose and ladder niques, safety, driving and ging. In step with the development of skills are the improvements in apparatus and equipment. Aerial ladders. now reach eight stories, and are equipped with turret nozzles which charge 1,500 gallons a throwing a stream 175 feet. The department can send smoke-filled building up 150 men, each masked -in latest oxygen breathing apparatus with a 30-minute Fire walkie-talkies trucks and or engines, and radiation detectors. You can see it all, Saturday. outbrass- of fight- the hazards, through a develJ. clean- attendthey assigned areas the Blvd. In subThey tire hy- techrig- up disminute, into toja the supply. carry D. 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