Show I V V I 1 What You Ought to When the tIie House Takes Fire I J J eTh V Call Up Theres a Fire Pire Tell the Department About It and Let the Firemen Do the ViII Save You Money Says Fire Pire Chief Bywater V V should your our h house use cahill t fire call l up central contral Tell her h il In a pleasant sant Theres a fire V enough T The 1 will willbe Willbe be made with the fin dep and the alarm In switch Then tell teU the Thoman fir where the thu tire the Is and hung hang up p the thep p phones lOne The next best best do is to wait alt for tor the Hie department V takes It a minute or 01 tro even een it If it does scout seon an hour Close Close up the doors and get out ot of the house This stops nIl the droughts draughts and th worst worst the fiame fiam can cando cando do is to When r en the firemen men arrive they wIll do part The They have hae aU all the apparatus need needed ad can extinguish the blue blase without half the damage to the or building that yot would Jn tat It If you tried to put out the fire These In Instructions instructions are but Fire Chief Chie William Ullam H Bywater declares that if tho they were followed folIoed closely loel fire dam damages damages ages would be re reduced ir Of course there are to these rules In many when n cur thin or catches fire it can be smothered in n t Jl 4 match is often ofte stepped on and Jig ted A mo moment moment ment later Inter the carpet lire but In such instances the blaze can be with o dana and without sending In an n alarm But the instructions glen given above aboc apply appl where there Is a genuine tire lire caused from some explosIon an overheated ft stove o defective wiring or other sources where serious results are likely to follow The rhe one great reat mistake often made bY persons In ease ot of fir lire Is that th they lose their heads When the first puff of smoke arises or dame breaks out a Is madE for It The seat of the fire Is never looked for The first thIng I that comes haUd is thrown at it ot Not long ago a 3 woman discovered smoke rolling out of a closet Sh She grabbed a bucket of water and ope opening the closet door dashed it aU all over the tho clothes Inside She r repeated this a dozen times but the smoke still atm poured out ut t faSter uter than ever When hen the entire house vas filled with smoke and she could hear the cracking of the flames she ran out into the front yard and yelled Fire AU All the doors were l ft open and the draught tanned fanned the wood into info flames Some Seine SomeI SeineI I of the neighbors sent In the alarm I I When hon the fire department arrived the I stairs were a 3 mass of flames The fire was extinguished but the damage was WO besides the clothes spoiled b by the smoke and w water ter This particular fire was caused f m defective wiring and never was In the h closet but under the stairs Had the woman gone to the telephone und and called for the the lire fire Would have done but little damage It took her ber at least minutes to pack the wn vater tel Into the closet Then eke elte dashed from the house and threw open an all the doom und and another two minutes elapsed During these five minutes she he saw no flames Hames and the fire was still aWl In the s same me time thue the firemen could have reached the place and the liames Hames would have been without 5 damaged to sa say nothing of Chief B Bywater cited another eise which took place about three w 1 ago igo at the Commercial club rooms The I Il I department l vas called after a tub tubo o oi water lied had been poured down n a in the floor where the tho smoke coming out This failed to stop I When the department arrived th the S seat seato o th the flames was wan looked fOl or A board was removed from floor It could bo be seen seon that the smoke earns from some other part of the tho building Another board raised and at last the tho fire w boa ted Jed It originated under the range In the kitchen feet teet nw away from the place where the smoke was discovered and where tim tho water wa 8 poured In When hen the tho firemen un nfl to move the stove the floor dropped In i The joists were burned almost through and In a 3 few minutes more th the fire would have caused con consIderable damage Another bad feature Fire Chief B Bw By w t r speaks ot of Is the excited manner In i which some somo alarms are sent in Last week when the tho Progress block was on fire firo someone called up UI the fire station I Theres a fire here said a voice yolee In jerks over the phone and the receiver was slammed Into its hanger again Th The firemen were unable to figure figuro out just where hero here waS TheY waited another minute and then r a second alarm came in straightened tore tetu out and the department V left the station stallone The fire wan wag soon under con contro trot tro although about one minute wits Jose OSt Chief Bywater says sar It In the tho seconds that count When the alarm hi 11 given ghen In a 8 quiet manner the e watchman gets getso It iio o much sooner In many s the wrong street Is given The chiE tells ot of Do a ease caso which occurred not long ago An alarm came in to the effect that there was a 1 fire firo at South West est Temple The department went to t that at number as directed but there wan no lire r The They started back to the station when an excited man came running down the middle ot of the tho street and balled them The fire was at West est South Temple anti and caused considerable damage before the tho firemen arrived on the scene acetic fire chief nit as the they are known to the tho firemen are common about fires In the th business The They generally take an active runt part in crowding up to the front and giving orderS |