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Show F're Prevent Week began at Chicago fir5 Fire prevention wed- M bersto 14 marks ' sary of one of America''1 ' conflagrations, The ? cago Fire of i87l It was on October 9 , h Year that fire kUledM sons and destroyed 1-X' mgs in Chicago at ', ' ' 5168,000.000. In ramanf lion of the date of thist'i fire prevention week hi "T ' set for the week f jX', through Saturday period , ft includes October 9. U ' Observance of the ary originated in nn'".:r-the nn'".:r-the Fire Marshal Aso,-of Aso,-of North America eslak1 j Fire Prevention Day "'I recommendation of a'ec tee of the National Fire'p tection Association, the -i became Fire Prevention w in 1922. International observ.in. . ;-Fire ;-Fire Prevention Wek, nv' its 46th year, is marked'1,, proclamations of the Piv.-j"''1 of the United States and', Governor-General of Cm-ii |