<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/issues/2018-summer/student-fireman.html" dsn="news"><item_date>06/29/2018 12:00:00 AM</item_date><category_header/><title>Student Fireman</title><subheader/><description>I worked as a teenage student fireman along with other teenagers for the Denton Fire Department.</description><author/><photographer> </photographer><image> <img src="/sites/default/files/1909yucca_fireco.jpg" width="993" height="736" alt="1909 student volunteer fire company" title="1909 student volunteer fire company with water hoses and wagon"/></image><taxonomy-story-type>Letters</taxonomy-story-type><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections/><taxonomy-college-department/><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>
    
    
  
    I worked as a teenage student fireman along with other teenagers for the Denton Fire Department, all living in the Avenue B fire station just off campus, from 1946 to 1949.

At about 2 a.m. one morning, we received a call to extinguish a fire in one of the women's dormitories on campus. It being a women's dormitory, we dashed up the stairs only to find that a waste basket was on fire, which we quickly extinguished.

The next day, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported the incident, stating that it took the fire department 5 minutes to put out the fire and 30 minutes to put out the firemen.

We called ourselves the "Ulightem, Wefightem" Fraternity. I was in the August 1949 graduating class, receiving a B.B.A. degree. I have many fond memories of my four years at North Texas.

I worked in insurance most of my career, spending 32 years with Texas Blue Cross &amp; Blue Shield.

Kenneth Gray ('49)
Mesa, Arizona
  

    
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