Show e t EXPLOSIONS EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES Recently there w v was vs s is a n gas gns explosion i und under r a Now New N w York Street The result re- re telea suIt sult was devastating Telephone tele telegraph rI a graph aph and fire department wires were ere bled Streets were cre blocked And j four pei pel sons e finer ft ere injured I ng to 1 I ie e National Board I of Fire ers such 1 explosions are most f fr t the e result of waste gasoline solm in m SO sowers ers or ac- ac accumulations I ac-I accumulations of en gl formed by de decay decay- decaying 11 ing mg materials F if American cities s ird rd their under under- underground underground ground sewer sever 1 against explosion I In con consequence i les lesz and j esary sary waste res ree is I The United St Sues States s as a whole hole has ha lagged in an fire p pi prevention We have hwe havethe the knowledge an l the means for out laving laWIng the sat There is no lack ladof of funds for fir Arc fighting facilities Yet our annual toll leads all aU other by a i de margin otherl The Tho reason o 0 01 course is 1 simple simple personal carel card carelessness Too many I otherwise gent citizens adopt the attitude th t because e they have hav an insurance p icy lCY fire waste Isle is 15 of Ii a importance lo o 0 them They dont don't realIZe that eve every fire great or small destroys part o 0 our national H wealth and and acts as an ant obstacle to employ employ- employment employment ment nt home ow owning home g and industrial des de For several ears ars acs direct finan finan- financial financial cial loss by fire fir has been close dose to annually enough annually enough to employ people at a month It is said sand that the indirect loss is 15 still greater Apparently Am American rl n wisdom and economy end enat at the point where here fire begins I |