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Long Beach Fire Department (Images of America) by Glen Goodrich

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By Glen Goodrich

The lengthy seashore hearth Department's adaptability has been verified via a large choice of failures that experience marked it as a different firefighting strength at the West Coast. hundreds of thousands of citizens and others have owed their very lives to the

department on account that its 1897 formation. The LBFD moved into motion in the course of the devastating 1933 lengthy seashore earthquake, within which its personal fireplace apartment No. 1 was once decreased to rubble. Its

firefighters have quelled oilfield blazes throughout the twentieth century, and its fireboats have poured water onto flames engulfing the docks and warehouses of the bustling port. different tasks have integrated such aspect tours as working

standby in the course of Howard Hughes's 1947 flight of the Spruce Goose and caring for Sam the cat, a Station 6 mainstay who slid down the fireplace pole to the satisfaction of tv audiences.

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Evidently, the “generality” of the colonists supported this position. Unable to persuade the Brownes, Endecott and the council determined to ship them back to England, charging them for the cost and reimbursing them for their investment in the colony at a low valuation. The English leaders of the company later settled with the Brownes to quiet them. The Massachusetts Bay Company appointed ministers to serve the needs of its members, and those ministers determined how, in the absence of established English parishes, they could best do so.

Following the death of John Winthrop in 1649, the colonists elected Endecott as governor. He was returned to that office in all but two of the annual elections from that date until his death in 1665. Retaining his home in Salem, he found relaxation from public cares by paying attention to his farm, called Orchard Hills, and in particular to his pear trees. But to better exercise his responsibilities as governor, Endecott established a Boston residence, acquiring a home in what is now Scollay Square, though he did not transfer his church membership until 1664.

He stopped struggling, accepted that he was powerless to save himself or others, and in doing so finally received comfort. The “good spirit of the Lord breathed upon my soul,” he later wrote, “and said I should live. Then . . ” In later years this sense of joy would occasionally fade. He would look again to his works for comfort, but then worry that he was placing too much reliance on his actions, as if they were the causes rather than the fruits of his election. Troubled, he would again feel God’s caress, an overwhelming love that he would often compare to the intensity of sexual love between husband and wife.

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