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Show "SMALL BUSH FIRE" Those little words are in a report of the great Berkeley fire that burned burn-ed over thirty-five resident blocks. "A little brush fire," that got beyond be-yond control and fanned by the wind caused $10,000,000 damage and left 2,400 people homeless, "They saved theilr children," is the comment of one newspaper on the conflagration that started from someone's carelessness and the additional ad-ditional item that too many houses are built of purely combustible material. ma-terial. Such a disaster as is recorded at Berkeley can occur in any of our larger residence cities where someone some-one makes a little fire outdoors and does not take good care of it. City architects, city councils, fire departments and city and state officials of-ficials should all assist in educating people to lessen fire losses, which, in most states, are as great annually as all the taxes collected. ' |
