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Show Your Cooperation Is Needed i , i. Once again, during the week of October 8 to 14, the entire nation observes Fire Prevention Week. It is a time of more than passing significance to all of us, wherever we live and whether or not we think we have a direct interest in the problem of fire and its prevention. Fire injures people. It may injure them directly-through directly-through death, burns or property loss in a fire involving one's self or one's possessions. It injures almost all of us in the cost of fire losses spread over the entire population by insurance. , Last year fire cost the American people in property losses $667,000,000. That's about $20 for the average family. The fire loss in Utah has been estimated at $3,153,000. Nationwide, the fire . loss this year is greater than it was in 1949 and may easily set an all-time record. Fire prevention is a public problem, not just something for firemen or fire insurance agents , to worry about; and, only through public cooperation can we achieve any substantial reduction in the toll of suffering and damage from fire. It is the purpose of Fire Prevention Week to enlist that public cooperation; and all over this nation. and this state, efforts are being-made to interest people in the problem. Mostly, the promotional work is being-undertaken being-undertaken by the men who know the menace of fire best the paid and volunteer fire fighters. In Utah the Utah State Firemen's Association is working to further the fire prevention educational campaign along wih the fire prevention division of the Utah Safety Council. Well over a thousand men who serve in the state's four paid and 64 volunteer fire departments are asking their friends and neighbors to help them prevent fires, and minimize the loss and suffering which fire means They are asking for that help in Springville. , It is the purpose of this editorial to carry that plea directly to you and to ask that you give that help in the form of "extra care not only during Fire Prevention Week but throughout the year. |