No person shall interfere with, obstruct or hinder the work or operation
of the Fire Department at the time of any fire.
No person, while in control of any vehicle, shall fail, upon the approach
of any fire apparatus, to immediately drive or place such vehicle close to
and parallel with the nearest curb and immediately bring such vehicle to a
stop and there remain until the fire apparatus has moved from the vicinity.
No person, during a fire at which any fire apparatus is in attendance
or to or from which any fire apparatus is traveling, shall stop any vehicle
within fifty (50 feet of any fire hydrant situated closer to such fire than
a radius of 500 feet.
No person in control of any vehicle shall fail to move it from the vicinity
of any fire hydrant upon orders so to do from any Fire Department officer
or member.
No person, not being the Fire Chief or an Assistant Fire Chief or surgeon
of the Fire Department, shall drive any vehicle, other than an ambulance in
actual service or a vehicle carrying United States mail, over any fire hose
lying on any street in the village at any time.
No person shall obstruct or damage any fire hydrant or throw or pile
snow, ice or other substances or materials in close proximity thereto or otherwise
obstruct the full use thereof.
No person shall willfully give any false alarm of fire or tamper, meddle
or interfere with any station or signal box of the fire alarm system or willfully
break, injure, deface or remove any such box or station or willfully break,
injure, destroy or disturb any wires, poles or other supports or appliances
connected with or forming part of the fire alarm telegraph system or any auxiliary
fire appliance.
No person, not being a fireman or policeman, without permission of the
Fire Chief or an Assistant Fire Chief or surgeon of the Fire Department shall
go or remain within any fire lines.
No person, other than a member of the Fire Department, shall display
or maintain on any vehicle owned or controlled by him any letters, emblem
or insignia indicating or purporting to indicate membership in or connection
with the Fire Department.
A.
Authorized. The Fire Department of the village or any
or more fire companies thereof are hereby authorized and permitted to go to
the aid of another city, village, town or fire district outside of the village
limits to assist in extinguishing fires or to give assistance in other public
disasters or emergencies.
B.
Power vested in Chief. The Chief Engineer of the Fire
Department, in this chapter designated as the Fire Chief, is empowered to
direct that aid be extended to other communities as herein provided. In the
absence or disability of the Chief, the First Assistant Chief shall have the
power to direct that such aid be extended, and in the absence or disability
of both the Chief and First Assistant, the Second Assistant Chief shall have
the power to direct that such aid be extended.
C.
Privileges of firemen. While extending such aid, the
members of the Fire Department shall have the same immunities and privileges
as though they were performing similar duties within the Village.
No person shall install any pipes designed to convey gas from a main
for lighting or heating a building unless it is provided with a stopcock placed
in the sidewalk area at or near the curb and provided with a stopcock box
readily accessible so that the gas may be shut off at that point.
It shall be the duty of the occupant of every building occupied for
commercial, mercantile or industrial purposes in which an ammonia tank is
located to cause to be installed, on the outside of such building in a place
which is accessible to the Fire Department, a safety or bleeding valve and
deliver a key which will fit the same to the Fire Chief. Such safety or bleeding
valve shall be connected with the ammonia installation therein so that, in
the event of a fire, the ammonia in the tank may be withdrawn by the turning
of such valve.
