Show Tire Fire I Prevention Week Dont give fire firo a place to start is a piece of advice often heard but too little heeded The rho results of this heedlessness are oro starkly the tho annual tiro firo records of the tho United States Moro More than 1500 homes are aro destroyed or damaged by fire firo each ench day in many instances with tragic loss of life Fire strikes nearly industrial and commer- commer commercial commercial cial places each day and om in addition to the tho waste of physical resources there thero aro incalculable costs in tem tem- temporary temporary or permanent loss of jobs and frequent bus bus- business business iness failures We have havo nn an unfortunate habit of dismissing most fires as accidents It a sort of visitation of bad luck hack which somehow was unavoidable But how or able unpredictable unpredictable-is is the tho fire firo started by a care caro- discarded cigarette or overloaded and defective tivo tive electric wiring or poorly maintained heating and cooking equipment Yet as aK shown by National Fire Firo Protection Association studies these find and similar un- un uncomplicated uncomplicated complicated causes are responsible for the tho great groat ma- ma majority majority of fires We need nood to the tho fact that fires are aro not only wasteful but avoidable then go on to reform the tho habits and remove the tho hazards which cause causo them them When each ench of us as nn an individual has hus clone dono this wo we wild wil wilno no longer risk our lives jobs and possessions to tho destructive forces of fire Check fire hazards and aud correct them them during Fire Prevention Week October 4 to 10 Clean up able weeds and trash in vacant lots |