Where there is smoke, there is fire; where there is fire there is a fire fan. Even in ancient Rome, while Nero fiddled, the fire fans were hard at work on the bucket brigade. Robert Greenock explains it all in “What Is a Fire Fan?” from the October 1937 Fire Engineering HERE.
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