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Show Fire Prevention Is Year-Round Job National Prevention Week was celebrated nationally, October 7-13, but farm families should put forth every effort to prevent fires every day of the year. Farm property loss due to fires amounted to" $102,-000,000 $102,-000,000 in 1950, with 90 per cent of the total due to blazes which originated origi-nated from carelessness of some kind. Heading the list of fire causes Is the careless use of matches and smoking habits, faulty heating sys tems including defective chimneys and flues, and defective stoves, furnaces, and pipes; carelessness In disposal of hot ashes; sparks falling on roofs; faulty electrical wiring and appliances; and quickening quick-ening fires with kerosene or gasoline. gas-oline. Every farm community will find it pays to organize a volunteer fire department with an established sys tern of alarms and procedure. Fire damage can be cut by hall. |