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Show Ceiling Will Decrease Dwelling Fire Menace Cellar tires have proved about as dangeious to the safety of the home and its cccunants as any other source of conllagration. It therefore behooves the home owner when be starts to build to consider ways and means o( reducing this danger. Some communities communi-ties protect the interests of the home owners hy requiring safeguards not usually employed. The greatest single prelection Is a fire resisting celling. Metal lath and Portland cement nlaster are given a rating of one hour resistance to fire by fire prevention ngencies. In addition to the ceiling, .ill walls should be flrestopped. This means an Incombustible barrier to tire placed between floor beams and any other open spaces where a draft of air could carry llames up through walls or partitions back of t lie plaster. |