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Show Fire-Stopping of Walls and Partitions Essential One of the most useful safeguards against fire hazards in dwelling construction con-struction is the tire-stopping of walls, partitions and floors. Fire tends to spread upward. Hollow walls and partitions, par-titions, hollow spaces back of furring on masonry walls, and even hollow-floors hollow-floors offer . inviting runways for the rapid communication of fire from cellar cel-lar to attic and from side to side. The ne.nedy lies in adequate (ire-stopping, which " will make an all-lumber residence resi-dence considerably safer against the j spread of fire than masonry wall and ! lumber floor construction without fire stops. |