Show editorials avenues of fire fires start front from a variety ot of c causes auses they spread and become I 1 seri serious oud as a rule because of 0 the unenclosed stairways elevator shafts and other vertical vir openings such passages are the avenues avenue by which a tire fire in a basement or lower floor ascends with appalling rapidity andl and in a brief space ot of urne time involves an entire building by way of these apertures aper tures superheated super heated air and smoke will tire fire every combustible surface with which they come in contact actual flame not being necessary to to cause ignition whenever a newspaper reader encounters a tale of loss of life in a fire that has gutted some dwelling tenement factory or other structure he may rest assured thit that an unprotected vertical aperture was one of the chief contributing causes fire prevention has been called fighting tire fire before it occurs while tire fire protect protection lon alms aims to combat it after it lt starts by retarding the spread of the blaze it if the practice of safely shutting ote off stairways and other shifts would become general in the united states as it is in european countries the tremendous toll of life and property now levied by fire would be largely curtailed |