| Show COSTLY C CIt's FUN FUN Its It's fun to follow the fire engines Its It's always a thrill to see sec the great red trucks hurtling past with their sirens screaming And its it's fun to atch a fire There is a primitive excitement in the sight of flame and smoke and the sound of or cracks crackling ing wood But if we go beyond the superficial super super- superficial superficial sensory pleasures and start to think about w what hat fire means the theun fun Jun un is spoiled immediately For fire is the grimmest of disasters Fire Kills some Americans each year ear These people meet the most horrible of deaths deaths and and every everyone everyone everyone one of them die in vain Directly and indirectly Americas America's fire bill runs close to each year That money would build excellent homes It would buy bu three million good new automo I biles It would supply peo peo- people i pIe with jobs at over 80 per month i each It would provide families with subsistence relief To the time individual fire may be the most ghastly of experiences It Itma may ma mean death and injury It may mean the time loss of a job It may ma mean the burning of irreplaceable pos pos- sessions It I t may mean ruin and de de- despair despair de- de despair and privation For fire has no mitigating circumstances it it has no silver lining It represents destruction destruction destruction tion pure and complete this next next time the fire engines scream by Consider this next time you OU see smoke and flame and feel the angry heat of a burn burn- burning burning burning ing building And then it will seem more fun to help prevent a fire than to watch onel one |
