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Show NOW, THE GREATEST FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Observance of Fire Prevention Week from October 6 to 12 should be regarded both as a duty and a privilege by every citfzen and property owner. During the week, which has been an annual event for many years, the public will be offered an unparalleded opportunity oppor-tunity to learn of the hazards of fire and how they may be avoided and eliminated as well as what course to pursue once a fire has started. Fire marshals and chiefs, insurance representatives, and public and private organizations will cooperate to the fullest extent to make the Week the success it deserves to be. The public will learn of the danger of old or out-of-con-dition heating plants one of the most prolific sources of fire. It will be instructed in the menace of improperly stored stor-ed inflammable liquids and rubbish and of the danger of accumulations ac-cumulations of ancient furniture, clothes and knickknacks in basements and attics. It will discover that when we "save" a few dollars by making minor electric repairs ourselves, our-selves, a disastrous fire may be the result. And it will learn that every town and city should have, above all, a first-class modern building code that will do away with existing fire traps and make the construction of new substandard building impossible. Thousands of lives that are lost each year through fire can be saved as can hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property that goes up in smoke. Past Fire Prevention Weeks have done much to keep the fire loss, unnecessarily great as it is, from growing larger. Now everyone should contribute, as never before, time and interest that will make this Week the most successful and productive of all. |