Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-10-12 | Page 6 | Give a Little Thought This Week to Fire Safety Around Your Home

Give a Little Thought This Week To Fire Safety Around Your Home This is' annual Fire Prevention Week In Salt Lake City and in the nation. There is just one purpose in this observance, observ-ance, and that is to encourage everyone to give a little extra attention to the fire problemto be alert to the hazard, to take a few extra precautions. Fire Prevention week would be 100 successful if every resident were per-, per-, auaded to make fire safety checkup in his own home. ' ' The greatest single cause of fire i smoking-and matches failure to extinguish extin-guish a match or clgaret before discarding discard-ing it, dropping a burning cigaret in an overstuffed chair, falling asleep while smoking in bed, etc How careful are you and members of your family in handling matches and smoking materials in your own home? Second greatest cause of fire is defective de-fective electrical wiring and equipment, Is the wiring In your home safe? How about electric lamp cords, appliances, fuse plugs? Don't take chances with electricity. It can so easily start a fire in the middle of the night when it may nut "toe discovered" for some time'too late to save heavy loss of property, and perhaps even also loss of life. Third greatest cause of firs is defective defec-tive or overheated heating equipment, i - : : Closely allied to this fire hazard are defective de-fective chimneys and flues which also cause many thousands of fires a year. Check over your home heating equipment equip-ment furnaces, stoves, chimneys. Be sure they are fire-safe. Other major causes of fire in the home are children and matches, rubbish rub-bish and the use of flammable liquids in the home. Prevention of fires from these causes is primarily a matter of good housekeeping and common sense. Don't leave matches where they will be a temptation to young children. Don't let rubbish accumulate in attics, basements or storerooms and be particularly careful care-ful of letting it accumulate near stoves or smoke pipes.- Don't use gasoline or kerosene to start fires and be extremely careful in using dry cleaning fluids in the home. Better yet, don't use them at all. Experience proves that a proper understanding 'of fire hazards, plus consistent con-sistent effort in the interest of fire safety, can prevent many fires. It may prevent a fire in your home, or in your - business. 1 1 Give a little attention this week to -fire prevention. It could save you saoaoy,-suffering saoaoy,-suffering and inconvenience. It could even save your life.