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Show advice rnoM FIRE CHIEF. I Best Things to Do When Caught In Uurnlng Building. , filler Ciocker, ot tin' New York Hro brigade onVrs llm fullowlim nil ' vleo us to unduci hi s' of '"' (,i" break of Hie. "Keep cool; nu matter how hot everything aioutid you Bets, it-taJn ii cool, calm equilibrium, and you'll como out all right. "Send In Uio alarm Immediately; do not tako ll for gi anted that sonio one else lias rung up tlio flu- department. de-partment. ' "Fight iIih tin' ourseir liuforn tho nrumi'ii arrive. Vet) few tires, If discovered dis-covered at tlo outHOt are beyond th control or the people ou the promUcs, If only quick, Intelligent action Is taken. Fight tho HamcM with palls of water, smother them with rugB and blankets: heat them out with wot brooms. , "Illock tjio Bpieml of tire. If the burning room or rooms can bo shut ott from tho rent of the building. It will tnko I'onsidoralilo Mini' for tho fhe insKpit'ud. Shu! all doors, transoms tran-soms ami windows opening on shafts, and, If pofcslhlo, those to tho rxterlnr By clohliiR up the liurnlng rooms you prevent draughts, and cut oft a now supply of oxygon Tho flic, after exhausting ex-hausting Mm oxygen, will onh smoulder smoul-der "Never ascend to tlm upper stoiles of a burning building Tin- upper aro always the niont dansorous The smokt siqierhwittxl air ami poisonous fume which It Is death to Inhale. collect col-lect ftrsl in the top of the house. KIro, spicadiug tluough a building, burns straight to the roof, usually by way of tho halls and stairways, and then, widening Its course, eats back to tlm stoilos hi'lnw The lower Hours arc the safest lu time ot (Ire. "Xnver try to climb up the stairs to the io(r and new" open the scuttle A Mole through tin- roof to the open alt would serve us a chimney and nuignlr) tlie ciuitlugruilon alums! Incredibly In-credibly "Keep out of ilie hulls The hu way to await the anlval of the firemen fire-men Is in .1 room at low doivu In the building as you can get ullhout risk of smoke-faden hails Shut all doors and transoms In loom In which you stay, and open Mm windows wldn to keep the air cool and pure If smoke breaks In, lean out of the windows He careful not to get pxcltr-il. and not to breathe in the hot, smoking at mosphci i' "Make jour wa from the building If tho lire Is dniigei-nu.s. and you can pscupo without braving loo great heat. A wot towei hold over tho mouth and nostrllb will enahlft you to Ilvtt In an otherwise deadly atmosphere. Hut unless tho tiro spieads Into the room you aro oicnp.vlng It is best to wait for outside help." |