Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Fire-Hose Comedy.
An unrehearsed incident accompanied the naming ceremony of a new motor fire engine in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, recently.
The new engine, which replaces a manual fire-engine which had been in use for the last 76 years was named “Alert” by the wife of the chairman of the parish council.
During the subsequent display by the brigade, when one of the firemen was holding the hose the water was unexpectedly turned on. Another fireman standing close by was bowled over and had his helmet sent flying by the force of the water.
In his anxiety to save his colleague further discomfiture the first fireman swung the nozzle round, with the result that the stream caught a group of spectators, who hastily scattered, but not before many had been knocked over and drenched.
Description source:
Western Mail, 12 April 1928
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