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Show "A SMALL BRUSH FIRE Those little words are in a report of the great Berkeley fire that burned over thirty-five residence blocks. "A little brush fire," that got beyond controu and fanned by the wind caused $10,000,000 damage and left 2,400 people homeless. home-less. "They saved their children," is the comment of one newspaper on the conflagration that started from someone's carelessness, and the additional item that too many houses are built of purely combustible com-bustible material. Such a dislaster as is recorded at Berkeley can occur in any of our larger residential cities where someone makes a little fire outdoors out-doors and does not take good care of it. City architects, city councils, fire departmetns and city and ftate officials should all assist in educating people to lessen fire losses, which, in most states are as great annually as all the taxes collected. |