Show If Caught Caugh in a Fire Take a Fife Chiefs ChIef s Advice V 5 1 RE you ever caught In a fire r V V Pray Pi that you never may ay be but if you ever eve are one of the un unfortunates unfortunates unfortunates heed beed this advice adice given by bythe bythe bythe the veteran Chief Chie Swingley of the St StLouis StLouis Louis Leuis fire department who says that in out of ot every fifty cases es where persons Jump from burning buildings b and are killed or injured they would w uld be rescued if the waited until the arrival of the firemen What persons should hould do if cut off from rom escape is to t shut the door of ot the room In which they are and make for forthe fOrthe forthe the nearest window The uThe best way way is to crawl There is always a space next the floor where the tile air Is good Smoke always ys rises I dont care if a building Is filled with dense d nse smoke a window can be reached by crawling and keeping the head close to the floor Persons should get on the outside of the window The Th room may be b filled with fire but it will take some time be before beI before fore the fire reaches them Persons I should wait until their clothes catch on tire fire before e fore jumping It is almost sure death to jump Burning buildings do not tall fall im immediately immediately immediately mediately They are generally burning at least half an Hour r before they the begin begia beg to fall fa ll Even if the building bU does d oes be begin b begin e egin gin to f l the portion where one Is Ismay Ismay ismay may not fall falI Of Ot course when persons are pa d din in great danger minutes seem like IW hours The engines get to Hr in the majority of ot cases within a few min minutes minutes minutes utes after the alarm has been given Another thing that thet I am reminded of Is the fact of how few persons know the location of boxes nearest t tto to their residences and how to give lv aa an alarm Every one should ta himself with the location of the boic and how bow to turn in an as alarm |