| Show HAS OUTGROWN I FIRE DEPARTMENT Chief Glore Tells of Needs of Salt Lake City for Fighting Flames WATER TOWER IS ESSENTIAL nog antI tiring HI Would ho lin nt at of or Large Conflagration Salt Belt lAke lAk elt fire dJ has hall ha not nut kept pace With tho Limo great growths growth of the city alty elt during last three years according to 0 Fire Chief Glore who staled this morning water towers are essential In order to cope CApe with Ith big lIne fires which might oem In any of tho large buildings building In the tha business and manufacturing districts dl where It would be difficult to handle a line lino of or how hose ho with good effect There seems eIms to be bp b no room for doubt that Salt Bait Lake I ity has hns outgrown Its lire fIre department Thus The record of building permits proves that tho time lire lirA department ha hanot hAA not ben been b en developed proportionately with mithi the Iho need nel I of ot tire fire protection nays fays ay the th chief ehler who in his annual report will strenuously recommend an en ap zip appropriation large enough to provide tho the necessary apparatus and and now floss no buildings At present Salt gait Lake City has bas five the tire fire stations It needs at lit least eight fire stations says Chlof Olor Gloro Now ow the th various stations Matons are situated n liS isa follows ollowa No os 1 and 3 at headquarters No J t on north Second West Veat street No jo o t 4 at I 1 street anti and Fourth avenue No 6 ii at Ninth South Juth t and Ninth hast East streets tree No 6 C will be bo b bat at Eighth West Wen and Post streets Time The tIre lire department has hA a com eom complement of or only t men NEW NW STATION N Thief hier more IMI o that the rapid growth of the time city demands the build ing of or now completely equipped d sta Mons tiona to over cover the territory between bot No 0 2 and No 0 4 between bt n No K 6 and No 0 6 and ond between No 6 and No NoAt NoAt I At present headquarters Is III equipped with tt IW 9 m mn n two to steamers an nn aerial truck a R chemical engine anti a II house hose wagon agon Chief Gioro says that the th ad lid of a water wAler tower to to handle fires fire In the skyscrapers In is Imperative It Is III known that the national honest board of lire fire underwriters has 1111 already re received r a 0 report rt port made mil de by surveyors surveyor hydraulic engineers and anti other experts regarding time the th fire lire risks rinks In Salt Halt Lake ell it It certain ler that If this city does dOle not DOl of Its lilt own accord Improve the time tire flea department the national board of o underwriters will file a II demand for such Improvement and unless this the city complies compiles with this List demand insurance rates rate will be raised In proportion to the Increase In tire risks I nAT MAY MA KB lilo INOn Fire Fir 11 Insurance agents ent hires here as well wella 11 as na a special agents and surveyors are aru of this tho t opinion that rates will b be In to because buse of or th the severe risks rUka tak fisk taken fisken en n by fire Insurance companies unless the tha city takes action MUon to Q re lieve II Item the Ule and ansi perilous con dillon It la is th tI the common assertion of men and exports experts ex that a fire 0 which might Mart In any lUlY of the big downtown dO M blocks block GOuld harshly hardly bo be checked because becu of the combustible and anti height of or many ny of ut the tIme buildings COMBINATION COM M ON pOt Chief Glare think that the department should aim 11 inure whiM what Is r I called a II corn com four tour that la is an automobile dairying a l a ladder a It light Jko hM e and a pump pum With such a ap p pareto a It Ore flee In a 1 die dis district be he In thus to save hum thA he neal and contents lung long un before hIi heavier apparatus could from for far distant stations Salt Bait T Lake CIt City occupies a mm unique I and position III in u tu tes fires Or said MId Chief Ole Glor In lit inease I ease aft of or a conflagratIon this Ille tire Ire d of sir Ogden And nd other oilier cities could not nor at incise I rue rl lit In tune time to give Iva necessary aid d H S halt lt Luke Juk City CUr must provide within herself h the aha he apparatus a and find n cp ry to IU espo oo with any kind of a lire fire One Oe of ot 0 the tb Immediate Is la Isle mere le hoe hini Ill at U 00 0 reeL feet of hoe ho I Is needed ded to handle the th ltv ami a there I her art are only nty 1600 feet fel available at nil all nilve I ler Iv ve Ira rie SMI stations Ions |
