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Show Safeguards Asked in Fire Syrvoy KNIGHT URGES S.L.ORDI!IAi:CE AGAINST PERILS Report Lists 29 of 52 Buildings Studied . as Deficient Declaring the current survey of Salt Lake buildings to determine . need for fire safeguards will be ao "flash in the pan procedure aa far as his department la concerned.1 Fire Chief Walter 8. Knight appeared ap-peared Tuesday before city commissioners com-missioners with a request thai a special ordinance be adopted. The ordinance, copied after one In Portland, Ore, would provide . greater safeguards for vertical openings In buildings. It was explained. ex-plained. Elevator shafts, stair and light wells were described aa major structural features coming under the general classification of vertical verti-cal openings. Chief Knight told the commission commis-sion that the survey has been extended ex-tended to oS buildings. Or that " number, 29 have been found In need of fire safeguards of some type. ' Safeguards Urged The ordinance proposed by the chief would provide specifically for Installation of sprinkler systems la vertical openings. "We have tried to pattern this survey after one made years ago following a disastrous fire la a First avenue apartment house. That survey resulted In construo-tlon construo-tlon of 300 new fire escapes on buildings examined In the survey," ,' the chief said. Statistics on the survey were submitted over the signature of Harris E. Anderson, department Inspector. They revealed: ' Needs Outlined Fifteen buildings need additional addition-al fire escapes, two need repairs to existing fire escapes, four need Improvements on elevator shafts, two need repairs to furnace roams, three need Improved electrical wiring wir-ing and two need permanent structural struc-tural alterations. Simultaneously the city commission commis-sion received a letter from Gua P. Backman, chamber of commerce secretary, auggestlng start Immediately Imme-diately of a survey to determine needs of new fire department equipment so that provision can be made la the 1940 budget to enquire en-quire such needs. The letter alsa ' suggested the new budget allow sufficient money- for employment , of a man to carry on a permanent fire hazard survey oa Salt Lake buildings. Such action, the letter suggested, would result In savings reflected bv lower iiutiranM rates. |