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Show gas on fire or someone In some other oth-er room many feet away can set fire to it. Gasoline attracts fire from many feet away. For instance the fire in Toronto, Canada. This women's wom-en's husband brought home three five gallon cans of gasoline, and poured it into the family washer, there was no fire in the furnace at that time, several minutes later it exploded, nobody knows how it did, not even the man or the women for they died several hours later. Four of the children miraculously escaped, es-caped, the body of the fifth was found several hours later in the smouldering ruins. Because gasoline is used safely in automobiles, it can not be used as a home dry cleaner. Many people in the United States ask, what causes most fires? Statistics Sta-tistics show clearly that most fires are caused by carelessness, as indicated in-dicated by the fact that in all ot Massachusetts in the year's 1930 to 1934 and in the city of Philadelphia during the same period, about one out of every three fires were caused by carelessness of mathes or cigarettes. cigar-ettes. Smoking and matches are so closely related that experts group them. It is very simple to stop in at any ten cent store and buy a small cheap fireproof ash tray. Smoking in bed is a bad habit because many persons go to sleep while so doing, which often causes their death. To keep matches away from children is a common fire prevention measure, meas-ure, it is also a good fire prevention preven-tion measure to keep them away frem older children too. No good mother will leave her home nnd children alone in the house. For Instance In-stance we will take an incident up in Brooklyn. N. Y. A mother left her four children In the house alone while she went shopping, the children child-ren discovered a small fire under the stairs and immediately set a-bout a-bout to put It out. after it was done they went back and started to play again, but did not notice the rekindling rekind-ling of the fire, two of them perished, perish-ed, and two were badly burned, i FIRE PREVENTION Steve Strillch Second Place Essay Winner in the Junior High What to do in case of fire? Keep your head use your head, get everyone ev-eryone out of the house if possible, don't go back for the cat, valuable papers, or heirlooms, many people have been trapped and burned to death by so doing. Call the fire department. Know the location and operation of the nearest fire alarm box. Don't rush from a room that is not on fire into halls or rooms that maybe burning. A closed door will hold back fire for several minutes. Feel the door before be-fore opening it, if it is hot DO NOT OPEN ITl If it is not hot, stand bee-hind bee-hind the door and open it cautiously, cautious-ly, placing your foot against it. If you notica any pressure tending to open the door, shut it at once. Don't jump frqta the building! experience ex-perience shows a better .chance of escape by waiting for the firemen. If exit is cut off, make a rope of blankets and sheets. Throw bedding Poor electric wiring has often caused a great deal of fires. If you drop in any department store you would find that they have the new rubber electric wiring system. Ove heating stoves in the winter time is another cause. Most all of the stoves that are properly installed may be heated strongly anytime. Portable heating devices cause more fires than permanently installed heaters. The new electric iron is one of the most common of portable heattng devices, many steps have teh taken towards making ironing ifer, pro-oer pro-oer stands, thumb control, but still it is not safe to go away and leave the iron connected. Spontaneous ignition commonly known as spontaneous combustion, is an Insidious fire hazard, because seemingly harmless material can be the most dangerous. Oily rags, polishing pol-ishing cloths, and painters rags are all serious offenders. Also in mining camp fires are also caused by carbide car-bide beecoming damp and made to dry. , Dry Chhristmas trees should be Immediately disposed of after the holiday trimings have been taken off, because the children like to make their bon fires out of them, on which' they turn to be the most dangerous of any. frees should be chopped up for kindling wood or else turned over to the garbage cot-lector. cot-lector. Most fires start small, If they can be put out readily in this stage with a fire extinguisher which always should be at hand buf if the fire is to big, call the fire department de-partment and do not take any risks. Everyone should know how to call the fire department, preferably from the street fire alarm box or if there isn't one near call the fire department de-partment from the nearest telephone, tele-phone, A great many, people of the United States wonder why we have Fire Prevention Week? The answer ans-wer is, it is an aniversary of the big Chicago fire of 1871, when Mrs. O -Leary's cow kicked over the lantern lan-tern in the stable which destroyed a whole city and took the toll ot 200 lives and several million dollars of property. to the ground to break the xau u jumping is your last resort. If your clothes catches fire. Do not run, roll yourself on the floor or grbund. covering face with hands to prevent breathing of flames ot smoke, if a rug. blanket or any heavy garment that is at hand, wrap yourself closely In it. Do this for another person whose clothing catches fire. Call a dootor to attend to burns! even minor burns may have serious results if they are neglected. Most fire prevention measures are not so spectacular for no one cani see the fires that do not occur. Ev-j ery day women send their clothes to the cleaners not only because they have found that a good clean-eer clean-eer can do the work better, but more important still, because they will not endanger our homes by doing do-ing their own dry cleaning with gasoline, naptha gas, or. other inflammable in-flammable liquids. However there are probably just as many who, in sending theeir clothes to the cleaner, clean-er, do not realize what an exceliem fire prevention measure this is. But still there are many thousands of women clean their clothes with inflammable in-flammable liquids not havmg the slightest notion that some small spark caused by friction can set the |