# George S. Dorsey (driver of the fire escape)
# Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Friday 1 Dec. 1871 (day 8), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-12-02, page 4
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# STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. 

GEORGE S. DORSET
was driver of the fire escape. He did not know
much about the lire, except that it was a pretty
big one.
The board listened to him and adjourned till 10
o’clock this morning.