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Show Clean up for fire-safe home A good, vigorous clean-out of trash is one of the smartest smart-est things you can do to keep your home and family saic from fire. .., H11 It's smart now, during Spring Clean-Up. And it s siui smarter if you repeat the job at regular intervals througn out the year. iw Almost everyone's attic, closets and basement get to De the final resting place for clothing, draperies, lamp shades, mattresses, papers the list is a long one which seem to be too valuable at the moment to be thrown away. t.very bit of it is fuel for destructive fire. The risks of rubbish are shown by these National ire Protection Association figures: Five times an hour, 120 times a day, an American home is destroyed or damaged by fire starting in rubbish. So add a trash can to the three tools you probably are using this spring broom, rake and paintbrush. Fill it with all the junk you can find from top to bottom of your home stacks of papers and magazines, old furniture, cleaning rags, dust mops, curtains. Make sure you do the basement workshop work-shop for shavings, scraps, oily rags, paint cans. Don't miss the garage either. Remember, a little elbow grease now may save a lot of grief from fire later. " |