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Show 7. a wwf all the time; they need per cent protection from fire. .2 Teach older children the safe and proper use of fire and thus to respect it; remember that they learn best by your example. 3 Keep the childs home free of fire hazyour home ards. 4 Know the right way to escape from any building in an emergency and train your children to be as ready and able to do the same. 5 Theresa quick and a sure way to call the fire department; knowing the right' way before any sudden emergency can very well mean the saving of precious seconds and perhaps even the life of a child. In mind Agent Advises 100 On Fire Safety For Children Are your children safe from fire at home and at play? Im sure most folks can answer yes, says County Extension Agent A. Fullmer Allred. Parents generally realize that they can do a lot to keep fire from harming their youngsters. For those parents who may have a few doubts, though, Mr. Ailred has this special Fire Prevention Week advice on child Attendance at Wisconsin state fire safety: parks rose from less than a mil1 Keep very young children lion in 1944 to more than five two and under In sight and million in 1956. -- infeeds Smoking dasoijrf Deplic yew tfajred electric cords! lUwp matches 8w Calmness Needed routes from any room In your house. When Escaping Feel a door before opening; if hot, block it with furniture and seal with wet towels and blankets; try to get out another way. From House Fire Get out of the house the minyou discover a tire or suspect one and get everyone else out at the same time. ute Everyone should memorize this and other life, safety rules about fire," warns County Extension Agent A. Fullmer Ailred, because theyre your best guarantee of surviving a fire in your home. He recommends these other rules as important to remember, too, if fire should strike: Be ready with different escape 2 Box Elder NEWS Brigham City, Utah Wednesday, October 9, 1951 - V. palV waakly nawipapar .Htabliihad la iitnad a vary Wednaiday and antarad a. Sac- In sfflea a tha port Mottar Clan and Brigham City, Utah, Mdar tha act St March I, 187?. Never Jump from upper story windows except as last resort; Subtcrpltioa rata 13.00 par ynar, payable la wait for firemen. advance; la combination with tha Id Wane (published Friday) 16.00 par year; Hold your breath if you have Journal, 62.50 tor 6 month; lingie copy It cent. to dash through smoke and CM. W. Claybaugh, Fublihar flame; and remember that the air is usually better near the floor In a smoke-fille- d room. Once out, dont ever go hack into a burning building smoke Member Audi Bureeu of Clrculetlen, Ufeli and gases from even the smallest State Pre Association, National Editorial Frei, Advertlun Association end United fire can be'deadly; children very Representative; Utah State Press Association, often go hack into their homes, Sait Laka City, Utah. $ so keep them restrained. Get medical treatment at once ceedingly dangerous, r' If you are burned or exposed to Call the fire department the smoke; seemingly minor burns instant youre certain that everyor smoke inhalation can be ex- - one is safely away from the fire. f ' ' item chiidreti! : - ' swiOuN ' ev , v , teller, itticfe Demme 6 unlui ' ' t dmt k1 Beware of kitchen Ike aonfijmmj&i itb til gtoocgt leaning fluids! a B uiful v Y' i $ s e I i. ,, i ' j Hi'' ' j fired UMUd C ", Every two . minutes a home isting wiring either, A wall many a sleep a final one. Dont lines to toss lighted matches, cigars, or burns. Will yours be next? Ev- plug with too many ery two minutes, every hour, lamps sewing machines, radios, cigarettes into garbage cans or every day, every week, every television sets is usually hand- from windows. Use ash trays at month, throughout the year, the ling more than it was intended home and when driving your disaster of fire visits an Ameri- to. A wire warm to the touch car. Its the only safe way to can home. The reason? Care- is a danger signal. dispose of cigars and cigarettes. lessness mostly. It seems that Remember to turn off all elecFlammable cleaning fluids can where fire Is concerned, man is trical appliances when you are be extremely dangerous caushis own worst enemy. through using them, it not only ing disfigurement and death as Nolan Jensen, chief of Brig- helps prevent fires but also pro- well as fire. Keep such fluids ham Citys volunteer fire de- longs the life of the appliance. in a closed metal contained and Dont fill an open fireplace away from open flame or spark partment, has compiled a list of articles. Rubbing the most common faults or acts full of highly combustible ma- producing of carelessness that pnay lead to terial or get into the habit of clothes in a cleaning solution a disastrous, blaze. These are Using it as a trash burner. Nev- often produces static electricity Be friction. brought to your attention by er leave a fire burning in the or the News and Journal In an ef- fireplace without first placing careful, even with fluids adverPolishtised as fort to make Brigham City a a safety screen in front of It. safer place to live in. In addiIf your stove burns wood, keep ing waxes and oils should also tion to the destruction of prop- it well away rom the wall and be treated with the same cauv erty, fire is a savage killer,' tak- the woodpile. See that the tion. ing a toll of over 12,000 lives in floor beneath Is properly proA hand chemical extinguisher ; . meriea last year alone. tected. Dont keep gasoline or should be kept in every home Basements, attics, and closets kerosene in the home and above with all members of the family are prime breeding places for all dont use either of these two instructed in ith use. Each memwith liquids for starting a fire. They ber of the family should also fire. They are crammed cast-of- f ' articles,- greasy rags, are like dynamite. Keep the be drilled in what to do when dusters,, and electrical wiring is surface of your stove clear of fire breaks out. The first acSee tion is to place the alarm by usually poorly installed. Inter- all. flammable material. nal epmbustion may start a that matches are kept in a met- phone or through the nearest and out of the alarm box. You should have blaze in any of these spots and al container gain headway for hours without reach of children. the fire department phone numfixed near Dont put ashes in a eomhus-tibl- e ber permanently being noticed. Keep these places clean and free from rubbish. container if you bum coal your phone. Picture the worst If . rags or waste are to be re- or .wood. If you are using oil possible situation in your home used, Keep them tightly sealed for fuel make sure that the bur- if a fire should occur and know in a metal can. ; , , . ner is cleaned and inspected what to do in each case. Save Electrical wiring which has regularly. Be sure there is more lives first, then property. If been Improperly installed or than ample clearance from fur- there is time to do so, have which has been allowed to de- nace to combustible walls and someone at the nearest intersecg teriorate is often the cause of ceiling. If ft is overly warm to tion to direct the a serious fire. Be - sure the the touch, or there is the slight- equipment when it arrives on wiring in your home Is safe and est sign of charring you are the scene. in good condition. Call in a flirting with a fire. Keep flue Finally, cooperate .the year competent electrician to have It stacks in good repair. Have the around with your fire departinstalled or repaired. To have chimney cleaned at least once ment not just during fire preextension cords hung on nails a year and inspected for cracks. vention week. Their efforts or hidden under carpets where Using a lighted match to are dedicated to the prevention insulation can wear through search for a gas leak is not of fires as well as fighting them quickly Is to invite fire into only silly, Itis suicidal. Air out and they can use your help. If your home. room and dont enter any of the hazards shown or Technically all wiring In a it with an open light. Make sure listed, exist in your home, corhome is Installed according' to gas pilot lights are properly rect the situation as quickly as city ordinance but you cant af- safeguarded against faulty oper- you can. Yours may be one of ford to take it for granted. Have ation. the thirty homes that will burn it checked. Dont overload ex- - Smoking in bed has made in the next hour aftey reading I g -- gas-fille- d u 7umltko x n 7mt? BE CAREFUL A Republican Convention Is Hereby Called For THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10,1957 - 730P.M. family about fire hazards today. And remember, prevention is YOUR year round responsibility. f' j to be held at the County Court House, for the purpose of placing in nomination a Republican ticket as follows: .MAYOR NOT CARELESS! A forgotten glow-in- g cigarette or hot iron, faulty or inadequate electrical wiring, stored combustible materials . . , are all major sources of fire. Check your home for and inform your ... 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