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Show upward trend was resumed in May June's fire losses bring- the total to-tal for the 12-month period ending end-ing June 30 to a record breaking $709,839,000, the greatest destruction destruc-tion ever recorded in a 12-month period in U. S. history. For the first six months of 1948, fire waste in the U. S. totalled to-talled $386,480,000, which exceeds by several million dollars the fire loss for the entire year of 1943 : The 1943 loss was $380,235,000. L0SS FROM FIRE REACHES HIGH FIGURE PAST YEAR Fires, nearly all of which could have been prevented by simple acts of caution, cost the nation $54,706,000 in property loss during dur-ing June, latest month for which figures are available. This was an increase of 7.6 per cent over June, 1947, indicating that fire losses are still going up. After slight decrease in April, the |