Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-25 | Page 7 | Fire Bells Ever Ringing

Fire Bells Ever Ringing I DOUBTLESS it will be quite a surprise to the average reader J to learn that during every minute of the day and night in the United States an average of worth of property is is' destroyed by by fire I- I i T Taking king the round number of which is sufficiently great I t to tg be both impressive and approximate it means that every hour each day in property value is going up in smoke that every day the total amounts to for every month 21 is represented as the fire loss while the aggregate for the year is the stupendous sum of about In reality the loss is js far greater than this when multiplied by bythe t the e extra 19 above the and even this does not tell teU the whole hole story for destructive forest fires and those of buildings in remote districts and seldom reported must be taken into t on vf According c ding to official reports and liberal estimates e the total in 1918 in in 1918 was more than while it is expected that this this' figure will VitI be exceeded this year in view of the fact that tl tle otal for the first three quarters was more than than J j l leaving three of the heaviest losing months yet to be heard from to v Nor does the loss toss stop with the consumption of v various rious kinds I of of buildings by fire It means a loss to the country in many inI int in- in f t st of immense stores of finished goods or raw material and andI the I loss ss of many people of emp employment by the destruction of I m manufacturing plants f Possibly the saddest loss of all is occasioned by the burning If often accompanied by the death or injury of one or l. l more members of a family p 1 t This is the seas season n when the greatest danger from fires exists t s the e result of first fires of the season being built in furnaces t and Moves gloves tov s after months of disuse and during which time the sum- sum t m i ins may have rendered the chimneys unsafe 1 J In In view of the enormous toll constantly being imposed by bythe t t. the t c fiery element elem nt it is the duty of every property owner of every f 1 hots home o owner and of every to use the utmost precaution r In order der to cause a much desired break in the the constant ringing of r i the the fire Ore bells