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Inspector of Slaughtering: Frederick Bradley.
Inspectors of Plumbing: Michael D. Welsh, Andrew Rae.
Dog Officer: Louis Cappella.
Sexton: Paul H. Ziegengeist.
Sealer of Weights and Measures: Harold E. Giles.
Collector of Water Rates: Harold W. Baker.
Harbor Master: Elmer P. Boutin.
Beach Committee: Selectmen.
Caretaker of Veterans' Graves: John W. Martin.
Veterans' Burial Agent: Frank A. Vancini.
Director of Veterans' Services: Thomas F. Quinn.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
March 25, 1950
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 1:30 o'clock, P.M.
Article three:
Mr. William H. Armstrong made a report for the Plumbing Committee, and requested that since a final report was not ready that the Committee be continued for another year.
Mr. Kendall H. Holmes made a report for the Harbor Committee, and requested that the Committee be con- tinued for another year.
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That the reports of the several boards of Officers and Committees of the Town be accepted and placed on file.
Article four:
Voted: That the Town authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1951, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
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Article five:
Mr. Brewster moved: That the salaries of elected town officers be set, as of January 1, 1950, as follows:
Chairman of Selectmen $726.00
Other Selectmen (each)
363.00
Chairman of Assessors
2,871.60
Other Assessors (each)
2,429.60
Town Clerk
2,230.00
Town Treasurer
2,230.00
Collector of Taxes
3,470.00
Mr. William H. Barrett moved: That the figure $3,339.60 be substituted for the figure $2,871.60, for the salary of the Chairman of Assessors, to be retroactive to January 1, 1950, and the motion was carried.
Mr. William H. Barrett moved: That the figure $2,897.60 be substituted for the figure $2,429.60, for the salary of the other Assessors, to be retroactive to January 1, 1950, and the motion was carried.
Mr. Brewster's motion as amended was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article six:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of $1,610,576.77 to defray the expenses of the Town and for other purposes, as listed in the printed recommendations of the Advisory and Finance Committee.
Selectmen's Dept., Salaries
$6,480.50
Other Expenses
1,770.00
Town Accountant, Salaries
4,645.00
Other Expenses 500.00
Treasurer's Dept., Salaries
3,842.00
Other Expenses
1,205.00
Tax Collector, Salaries
5,055.00
Other Expenses
1,678.50
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Assessors, Salaries (Amended) 12,060.97
Other Expenses
1,182.40
Law Dept., Salaries
1,750.00
Tax Appeal Cases
5,000.00
Other Expenses
100.00
Town Clerk, Salaries
3,842.00
Other Expenses
232.50
Out-of-State Travel (Reconsidered)
150.00
Town Engineer, Salaries
1,700.00
Other Expenses
310.00
Planning Board, Other Expenses
1,000.00
Election & Registration, Salaries
2,320.00
Other Expenses
1,327.00
Town House Maint., Salaries
1,343.50
Other Expenses
1,770.00
Equipment
430.38
Repairs
206.00
Old High School Maint., Salaries
2,050.04
Other Expenses
1,734.00
Town Hall Maint., Salaries
5,195.84
Other Expenses (Reconsidered)
2,630.00
Fuel (Reconsidered)
2,125.00
Additional Lighting
200.00
Police Dept., Salaries
66,650.00
Other Expenses
6,385.00
Out-of-State Travel
150.00
New Cable
800.00
Fire Dept., Salaries
75,646.48
Other Expenses
8,425.00
Out-of-State Travel
250.00
Liability Insurance on Trucks
1,024.08
New Radio
600.00
Building Inspector, Salaries
800.00
Other Expenses
200.00
S. W. & M., Salaries
1,900.00
Other Expenses
300.00
Insect Pest Extermination, Salaries
2,016.64
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Other Expenses
5,490.00
Tree Warden, Salaries
1,250.00
Other Expenses
5,785.00
Forest Warden, Salaries
400.00
Other Expenses
1,850.00
Liability Insurance on Trucks
682.72
Forest Fire Payrolls
2,100.00
Inland Fisheries, Other Expenses
300.00
Health Dept., Salaries
10,302.35
Other Expenses
12,925.00
Sewers, Other Expenses
5,600.00
Garbage Collection, Other Expenses
(Reconsidered)
17,435.00
Street Cleaning, Other Expenses
(Reconsidered)
2,200.00
Public Sanitaries, Salaries Other Expenses
400.00
Roads & Bridges, Salaries Other Expenses
40,000.00
Highway Const. & Reconst.
19,250.00
Setting Boundary Stones
500.00
Repairing Hard-Surfaced Streets
5,375.00
Sidewalks
6,600.00
Granolithic Sidewalks
2,250.00
Snow and Ice Removal
7,300.00
Street Sprinkling
1,500.00
Street Lighting
22,435.00
Traffic Lighting
400.00
Traffic Signs, Painting, etc.
3,200.00
Harbor Master, Salaries
2,380.04
Other Expenses
337.00
Public Welfare, Salaries
8,710.35
Other Expenses
100,900.00
Town Infirmary, Salaries Other Expenses
3,350.28
A. D. C., Other Expenses
81,000.00
O. A. A., Salaries
9,050.00
5,430.00
4,500.00
5,738.00
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Other Administration
2,070.00
Assistance
279,500.00
Veterans' Services, Salaries
3,625.00
Other Expenses 275.00
Veterans' Benefits, Assistance
31,000.00
Schools, Salaries (Amended)
365,145.00
Fuel
. 10,500.00
Transportation
26,560.00
Other Expenses
42,205.00
Out-of-State Travel
50.00
School Lunch, Salaries
5,700.00
Other Expenses
11,020.00
Park Dept., Salaries
10,740.00
Other Expenses
16,965.00
Pensions for Town Laborers
1,032.20
Cont. Retirement System, Pension Fund
25,299.00
Expense Fund, Salaries
672.00
Expense Fund, Other
228.00
Insurance of Town Property
4,600.00
Sexton
250.00
Misc. Acct., Salaries
541.00
Other Expenses
3,870.00
Water Dept., Salaries
20,561.00
Other Expenses
34,330.00
Emergency
2,500.00
Regular Construction
6,500.00
Town Wharf Maint.
350.00
Town Forest
850.00
O. G. & V. H. Cem., Salaries
5,930.00
Other Expenses
10,000.00
Burial Hill
3,000.00
Outlying Cemeteries
2,300.00
Town Debt and Interest
46,500.00
$1,610,576.77
Mr. William H. Armstrong moved: That the amount of $3,885.60 be added for the Police Dept. Appropriation
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and that it be recorded as the sense of this meeting, that the Selectmen be instructed to establish a 40-hour week schedule for all members of the Police Department to become effective at such time as the Selectmen have been advised this action would have the legal approval of the Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts; other- wise the amount of $3,885.60 shall remain as an unex- pended balance of the Police Dept. Appropriation, but the motion was lost by a ballot vote, 350 voting in the affirma- tive and 467 in the negative.
Article seven:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand five hundred dollars ($15,500), in- cluding the dog tax of $1,982.32, in aid of the Plymouth Public Library.
Article eight:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of four thousand seven hundred dollars ($4,700) to be expended by the Plymouth Public Library for the Loring Library.
Article nine:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars ($1,180) in aid of the Manomet Public Library.
Article ten:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) for the observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article eleven:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400) for the observance of July Fourth, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, $150 of this amount to be expended for the sponsoring of children's sports.
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Article twelve:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350) for the observance of Armistice Day, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article thirteen:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the observance of Thanks- giving Day, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article fourteen:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars ($3,480) for the employment of one or more district nurses, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article fifteen:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) for the use of the Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture and choose a Town Director.
On motion of James T. Frazier, Voted: That Robert B. Bowler, Jr., be appointed Town Director of County Aid to Agriculture.
Article sixteen:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved that the Town adopt a by-law to read as follows: "The Board of Selectmen is authorized to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place, by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town, fourteen (14) days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomso- ever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate."
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Mr. Howard P. Barnes moved to amend by substituting the following motion: "That the Board of Selectmen is authorized to sell property taken by the Town under tax title procedure provided the Selectmen or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction, may reject any bid which they deem inadequate. Such sales shall be held only after first giving notice of the time and place, by posting such notice of sale and listing of property or parcels in at least three convenient and public places, and by publication of such notice and listing in at least one weekly issue of the newspaper published in Plymouth two weeks preceding such sale." The motion was carried.
Mr. Brewster's motion as amended was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article seventeen:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) for compensation and expenses of the Dog Officer required by Chapter 320 of the Acts of 1934, $900 of which shall be for salary retro- active to Jan. 1, 1950 and $300 for other expenses.
Article eighteen:
Voted: That the Town accept twenty-one cemetery perpetual care funds, amounting to five thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($5,125), received and deposited in the Plymouth Savings Bank in the year 1949 in accordance with the usual votes of the Cemetery Com- missioners and Selectmen, and listed as New Funds in the Town Report.
Article nineteen:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the Reserve Account in the hands of the Advisory and Finance Committee, $7,000 of which shall be from the Reserve from Overlayings of Taxes and $3,000 from Excess and Deficiency.
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Article twenty:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of $39,000 under the provisions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, $24,000 of which shall be for the improvement of Rocky Hill Road and $15,000 for Standish Avenue, contributions from the State and County to be returned to the Excess and De- ficiency Account.
Article twenty-one:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) to pay for any possible land damage in connection with the new County lay-out of Rocky Hill Road.
Mr. LeRoy S. Williams moved: That the Town take no action under this article, and the motion was lost.
The original motion was then put before the meeting and unanimously carried.
Article twenty-two:
Voted: That the Town assume liability in the manner provided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws for all damages that may be incurred by work to be per- formed by the Department of Public Works of Massa- chusetts for the improvement, development, maintenance and protection of rivers, harbors, tide waters and fore- shores, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws and to authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of indemnity therefor to the Commonwealth.
Article twenty-three:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the purpose of continuing the Survey and Assessors' Plans, to be ex- pended under the direction of the Assessors, with the approval of the Planning Board.
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Article twenty-four:
Voted: That action under Article 24 be deferred until after Article 33 is acted upon.
Article twenty-five:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) as provided in Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 37 of the General Laws, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article twenty-six:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from' available funds, the sum of $25,000 for the Stabilization Fund, as authorized by the provisions of Chapter 124 of the Acts of 1945.
Article twenty-seven:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $750 for the purpose of maintaining the mosquito con- trol works, constructed in the Town of Plymouth, as estimated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board, in accordance with the provisions of Section 4, Chapter 112, Acts of 1931.
Article twenty-eight:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town vote to authorize the Selectmen, until the next annual Town Meeting, to sell or otherwise dispose of any equipment or material in the hands of any department under their supervision and deemed by the Selectmen to be obsolete and of no further use to said department.
Mr. Howard P. Barnes moved that the Town adopt a by-law as follows: "The Board of Selectmen is author- ized to sell and otherwise dispose of any equipment or material in the hands of any department under their supervision, which is deemed by the Selectmen to be obsolete and of no further use by the Town. No sale or disposition of such equipment or material shall be
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made until after posting of notices in three public places, together with publication in a newspaper published in Plymouth, of the time and place of such sale with a descriptive listing of articles involved, at least two weeks prior thereto. A public hearing may be held preceding such sale or disposition." The amendment was carried.
The motion as amended was then put before the meet- ing and carried.
Article twenty-nine:
Voted: That the Moderator be authorized and directed to appoint a committee of three members to make recom- mendations with respect to the advisability of the appointment of a wire inspector, including the desir- ability of cooperation with other towns in forming a dis- trict, to develop appropriate by-laws and make recom- mendation no later than the next annual Town Meeting with respect to remuneration and the possibility of fees to be charged, in accordance with Chapter 529, Acts of 1949, and that the Town vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for expenses of said committee.
Article thirty:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town take no action under Article 30.
Mr. Ralph James moved to amend: That the Town appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $16,500 for the necessary repairs to the Town Wharf.
The motion, as amended, was put before the meeting and carried. (Reconsidered)
Article thirty-one: .
Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 31.
Article thirty-two:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved that the Town adopt as a by-law the following: "No person shall, except in conjunction with construction of a building on the same
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parcel of land or for continued operation of an existing sand or gravel pit on the same parcel of land, remove any soil, loam, sand or gravel from any land in the Town after notice to cease and desist or to refrain from removal thereof has been served upon such person by delivery in hand or by leaving at the last and usual place of abode of such person or at the usual place of business of such person of written notice signed by a majority of the Board of Selectmen forbidding such removal. Any person aggrieved by such notice forbidding such removal, or any person wishing in advance of such notice to determine rights to remove soil, loam, sand or gravel, may at any time apply to said board for permission to remove such soil, loam, sand or gravel, said board thereafter to hold a public hearing on the application, notice of filing such application and the date and time of the public hearing to be advertised in a paper published in the Town seven days at least prior to the date fixed for such public hearing. The Board of Selectmen shall, within ten days of completion of such public hearing, grant or deny permission to remove such soil, loam, sand or gravel."
Mr. Francis W. Savery moved that no action be taken on this article, but the motion was lost.
The original motion was put before the meeting and carried.
Article thirty-three:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for advertising the advantages of the Town, together with the sum of $1,000 which has been contributed by donation and paid into the Town Treasury and which the Town hereby accepts, the total to be expended for the aforesaid purpose under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town take no action under Article 24, and the motion was carried.
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Article thirty-four:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate, or trans- fer from available funds the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) for the purpose of installing a surface drain in Priscilla Beach Road to prevent property damage.
Article thirty-five:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town trans- fer from the receipts from Parking Meter Fees the sum of three thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars ($3,285) for Parking Meter Expenses, to be allocated as follows:
Salary of Police Officer, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1950 $2,860.00
Expense for relocation of meters, to be expended by the Board of Selectmen 425.00
Mr. LeRoy S. Williams moved: That the Town transfer from parking meter receipts for parking meter expenses the following sums: To reset 135 meters, $300; new plans, $125, and the motion was carried.
The motion as amended was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article thirty-six:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars ($950) for the purchase of an automobile for the Police Department and to dispose of one in service (1946 model) .
Article thirty-seven:
Voted: That the Town transfer from the receipts from Parking Meter Fees the sum of three hundred and twenty-one dollars ($321) for the purchase of a coin separator and coin wrappers for use in connection with parking meter collections, to be expended by the Town Treasurer.
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Article thirty-eight:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of nine thousand four hundred and forty dollars ($9,440) for the purchase of a new motor street sweeper for the Highway Department.
Mr. Reubin M. Winokur moved: That the Town take no action under this article, but the motion was lost.
The original motion was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article thirty-nine:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of four hundred and ninety-five dollars ($495) for the purchase of a sickle bar attachment on International Tractor for the Highway Department.
Article forty:
Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 40.
Article forty-one:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($2,125) for the purpose of extending the sewer on Boutemain Avenue (760 ft.).
Article forty-two:
Unanimously Voted: That the Town accept and allow as a town way, Charlemont Road in the Priscilla Beach section of Plymouth about 650 feet long leading north- easterly from Rocky Hill Road to John Alden Road, as laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the Town, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for land and property damages and expenses of acquiring titles.
Article forty-three:
Unanimously Voted: That the Town accept and allow as a town way, Farmhurst Road in the Priscilla Beach
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section of Plymouth about 900 feet long leading north- easterly from Rocky Hill Road to John Alden Road, as laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the Town, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for land and property damages and expenses of acquiring titles.
Article forty-four:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) to grade and lay a mixed-in- place surface on a section of Valley Road.
Article forty-five:
Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 45.
Article forty-six:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) to grade and hard-surface Castle Street Extension.
Article forty-seven:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of six thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars ($6,283) for the pur- chase of an oil burner for the Memorial Building.
Article forty-eight:
Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 48.
Article forty-nine:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) to renovate, repaint and renew the historical signs and to erect addi- tional signs as needed, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article fifty:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) for the purchase of a new
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electric clock to replace the town clock in the Post Office Building.
Article fifty-one:
Unanimously Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to purchase for the sum of one dollar a parcel of land on the Town Wharf Lot, so-called, which was sold to the American Legion Post No. 40, Inc. of Plymouth, Mass., as authorized under Article 20 of the Special Town Meeting on October 14, 1946.
Article fifty-two:
Unanimously Voted: That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase for the sum of $1 a narrow strip of land on the easterly side of Westerly Route at the corner of Summer Street, containing approx. imately 2,310 sq. ft., being parcel No. 2 as described in a deed from Buckingham to the Plymouth Electric Light Company, dated November 9, 1932, and recorded in Book 1636, Page 372, also shown on a plan filed at the Registry of Deeds in Book 5, Page 285, the Plymouth County Electric Company to retain the right to the location of their poles on this property.
Article fifty-three:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the pruning of dead wood and removing of trees, in accordance with Section 13, Chapter 761 of the Acts of 1949.
Article fifty-four:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate or trans- fer from available funds the sum of two thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and thirty cents ($2,112.30) for the purchase of a B2PW Dodge Power Wagon for the Forest Fire Department.
Article fifty-five:
Mr. William S. Brewster moved: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to sell and convey to the Plym-
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outh Memorial Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, for the sum of one dollar a parcel of land with the building thereon, said parcel containing 9,690 sq. ft. on the westerly side of Spring Street, being Lot 110 on Plat No. 19 of the Assessors' maps, bounded and described as follows: Southerly by land of Mary Kaplowitz and by land of Ruth E. Raymond 158.6 feet, westerly by land of William H. and Margaret L. Hall 62.0 feet, northerly by land of Dorothy M. Johnson and by land of Lillian M. Thimas 155.1 feet and easterly by Spring Street 60.75 feet, the deed to said property to include the proviso that, should the building cease to be used as Post quarters by the grantee, the land and building will revert to the Town of Plymouth.
Mr. Walter B. Haskell moved to amend: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to lease the parcel of land with the building thereon at 1 Spring Street to the Veterans of Foreign Wars which they now occupy as their quarters for a period of five years, at a rental of $1.00 per year, but the motion was lost.
The original motion was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article fifty-six:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) to install a gate across Beaver Dam Brook in Manomet at the bridge at Brook Road to make Bartlett Pond the headwaters for the spawning of alewives.
Article fifty-seven:
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand six hundred and ten dollars ($1,610) for the purchase of 500 feet of 21/2" hose and 1,000 feet of 11/2" hose for the Fire Department.
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