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Show TWELVE YEARS WITHOUT A' FiRE LOSS IS RECORD Of ! GOODRICH RUB; Eii il ; Twelve years, with not a single fire loss to exceed 100, la the record of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Although this corporation corpora-tion carries millions of dollars of fire Insurance, no claims have been asked In this period. This record is remarkable remark-able when one considers that the company's com-pany's proiperty includes over 60 factory fac-tory buildings with a total floor space of over 100 acres, and employs over 18,000 people. According to R. W. 'Parry, fire chief of the Goodrich company, com-pany, t'tua record is the result of "constant "con-stant watchfulness." Twelv9 fire fighters guard the immense im-mense proper) ics of the company. These men have modern quarters located lo-cated in the heart of the plant ami can reach the farthest point among the factory buildings, a distance of nearly 1500 feet, in a fraction over two minutes. These excellently drilled men are everlastingly on the lookout for fire hazards. They make dally inspection in-spection tours of the plant and on these trips see that aisles and doorways door-ways are not blocked. Theyalso inspect in-spect the fire apparatus daily. The Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Company, one of the strictest fire insurance in-surance organizations in the world, re-! re-! ports that it is the cleanest and best protected faeiory in he state of Ohio. Chief Parry ,and his organization have the cooperation of every employe of the institution. Drills are conducted conduct-ed in the different departments of the plant for instance, 225 girl employes of one bu'lding, scattered on five loors, have repeatedly let the building in the short space of one minute and twenty seconds during fi.e drills. According to Mr. Parry, 90 per cent of the small fire flashes that might terminate in large and costly conflagrations, confla-grations, are extinguished before the company department arrives. These flashes are put out by employes by the aid of chemicals. Seventy-five per cent of these small fires are without loss caused by water. In other words, only 25 per cent of them reach the heat demanded to open the automatic sprinkler heads. These heads contract con-tract and open at 155 degrees heat. Another damage prevention, according accord-ing to Mr. Parry, is the use of soap-stone soap-stone instead of sand. Rubber cement Is used in large quantities in many sections of the plant, a.id while soap-stone soap-stone serves the same purpose a sand, it ha no injurious effects on rubber and rubber c?ment. The fire fighting apparatus of the Goodrich consists of one hose cart, 135 chemical tubes, 28,600 feet fire hose. 2000 fire pails, 543 fire extinguishers extin-guishers ranging in size from three to 20-gallon capacities, two fire foam extinguishers, which are used only on oil fires, and 17,938 sprinkler heads. |