Show Much of This Preventable F m RE losses in S Salt lt Lake City in 19 1935 5 amounted ji to more than double the total 1 for 1934 Th There were 1680 alarms for the year as s against the year before Of these are reported ported z as unnecessary n and fo false alarms t Without sp specific c figures I for O reference it may be said safely that by far th the greater number of fires fires' occurred in in r residential ti l districts In Inmost In most of these carelessness neglect and igno igno- ranee rance e played a part In th the business district 7 wh where r frequent inspections Inspections' insure against aci ac- ac i i. i of inflammable rubbish uncover i j improper wiring and dangerous h heating ar arrangements ar ar- bring to light uns unsafe fe practices in n J i industrial plants and arid many o other tiler potential caus causes s' s of f fires res there are fewer fires s. s It is wholly reasonable to suppose then that if householders whether owners owners or ten ten- J. J ant nu would keep their premises cleaned up and tee aee that at there Utere arc n no unnecessary y hazards hazard about there would be far fewer fire outbreaks With no large number of disastrous fires entailing entailing entailing entail entail- ing great losses it is wholly unreasonable that more than a quarter of a million millio dollars should have gone up in n smoke in this city last year The he false alarm fiend ought to be dealt with more severely His punishment ought to be sufficiently sufficiently sufficiently suf suf- stern to see sec that the city is reimbursed for the cost of turning ou the fire depart depart- m ment nt Every run the department makes is costly and in addition there is always risk of injury as the apparatus races to answer calls In dealing with false a lunacy inquiry ought to be part of the proc procedure procedure to to dure-to to be followed followed followed fol fol- lowed by such measures as appear necessary They are arc fools if ev ever r there were any and should be dealt with as such Those turning in unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary essary alarms are perhaps seldom subjects for criticism In case of f fires res it is a pretty good rule to be safe rather than sorry sorry even even if it is sometimes costly |