1920, A. H. Strom, the “firemen’s friend,†who has been serving coffee and sandwiches to the smoke-eaters at practically every fire of importance in the last twenty years, also spoke, as did Tommy Allen, Civil War Veteran, and former fireman.
1927, In fact, six pieces of apparatus were called out as a result of the second and third alarms and the smoke was so thick that even some of the so-called “smoke-eaters†were overcome in their desperate efforts to check it.
1947, James Stevens, Paul Bunyan’s Bears, The blaze was yet a fern fire, but it was what the smoke-eaters called a “hot job.â€
2001, Kathryn Shay, The Fire Within, In his southern drawl, Fire Chief Chase Talbot addressed the thirty or so smoke-eaters assembled in the academy classroom, the smile on his face warm and affectionate.
