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Show 'CARELESSNESS LEADS TO FIRES Salt Lake Chief Foints Out Waste Caused in Single Year SALT LAKE, Oct 6 According to Fire Chief Bywater. of the 142 fires in Salt Lake during July, ninety-four were due to carelessness. The flr hitf made this statement in two talks at theatres last night, when calling attention at-tention to Fire Prevention Week. The chief asserted that the local board of commissioners has done e -erylhing to equip the Salt Lake fire department to the highest possible standard, but that the co-operation of all citizens is necessary to pliminute the losses In life and property dufe to fires. The cbitf called attention to the fact that this week is being observed as Fire Prevention Week h a proclamation proclama-tion of the president of the United States, the governor of I tali and the mayor of Sail Lake City "Measures toward fire prevention, however, should not be confined to one-week. one-week. " he said To effectively combat com-bat ihe proentable conflagrations that occur In this country every day, the matter should be kept constantly before the people The department Is doing all in its power lo check fires in Salt Lake 'it , and during the first' six monihs ot" this .-.(ir 8000 buil n were inspected as u precautionary measure. "One Is amazed to hear lhat 20.000 lives :ire lost in the United States over year ihrough fires, and a large per cent of those fires are absolutely pre- rentable," said Chler Bywater. "Statistics "Sta-tistics further show that 150,000 people peo-ple are Injured In fires. The annual property loss exceeds $300.o00.000. "Some people hae an ermneous idea that Jones did not suffer a loss in his fire because Jones carried insurance insur-ance But Jones did lose, and the people lost, because the people have to pay the insurance," |