Show 0 C fiRES FIES DURING AUGUST Chief C f Devines Deves Monthly Statement Is I Given Out The records of th the city fire fr depart devart department meat ment for the month of August Aust just passed show a list of eighteen fires fres during the month Although this num number number number ber is a a decrease decree of twelve from the number during during the month mont of July the tires fires fres of 01 the ithe te i Dat past ast month have been un ue unusually usually usua destructive and the amount of damage done is about a third as much again amounting to Of the eighteen fires frs seven were residences eight were wee store houses and other buildings and three thre were er grass gs or rubbish piles Ues To the August Augst record belongs the most destructive fire fre of the year so far tar The fire fr referred to is that of the Utah mattress matre factory factor in which about worth of property was wa destroyed on Aug 13 Two severe accidents resulted ruled from fires fres during durins the month one being on onte the te occasion of the above mentioned fire fre in in which a fireman sustained a broken foot and the te other was wa one in which E a 2 woman was wa severely se burned I by hy an exploding gasoline stove stove There were eight fires fres during the month on oa which there thre was wa no loss and on the remaining ten tan there was 1 loss which was nes V covered coved by insurance and and on which there ther was wa no insurance insurance insurance ance I The total time in service serice by the department department de tie was wa and hours hour and the he total distance traveled by all al departments department was 2 miles Of the origin ori hi of the fires fres six were attributed to o stoves and the remain remainder rain remainder der were wee credited o matches and other oth r accidental causes Although the th department has been ben handicapped by bv low water pressure in inmost Inmost most most of the tires fires fres nevertheless the fire firemen fr firemen men have made tin an n excellent record for time being in i n actual service only once over oer three hours hou |