Show GIVES TIPS TO TOI I PREVENT FiRES o Ordinary r din a r y Precautions Would Save Needless Losses Ordinary precautions would do donway away with much of ot the country's half million dollar fire loss lOBS nc- nc ac according cording to Secretary Josse Jesee Jn c S Rich Rich- Rich i of the Ogden chamber ot of otI I commerce Fire prevention week opens Monday For the guIdance I of the public a II few tew simple rules designed to reduce tire fire hazards In Inthe inthe In- In the home have been Issued These Theae I are Defore starting the tires for forthe forthe I the winter It Is js Important that careful attention be given to the chImneys and nd flue flues for tor If it they art are neglected the entire home may be reduced to a IL few charred embers merely of ot such lack ot of care During the five sears end end- endIng ending ending ing 1920 property valued In e o ex excess cess of was as as annually as the result of defective and Hues flues The larger part of o thle this loss lollS could have hare been pre presented It If an inspection had been made soot cleaned out and the necessarY repairs made be- be before be before fore tore the fire was ins as built In the tall fall DESTRUCTION lIE Y HE 1117 IVY Oil Oils and gasoline take tale their annual toll of ot destruction uses them carelessly Sly or Ignorantly Kerosene or gasoline Iq a dangerous assistant hen starting a fire tire in the stove or fur fur- furnace furnace fur furnace nace Our mops or I lags often otten flies lies from spontaneous corn com combustion com combustion bustion They should therefore be beal alu al alays ays kept In m metal tal containers Ic lighting and heating apparatus should be care carefully tully In- In In Installed stalled and frequently Inspected Electricity alone caused an a aver apr average pr- pr prage age of loss annually during the tl year five year e-year period ending 19 1920 O 1 Disorder and untidiness breed tIres fires Careful attention should therefore be bo given b by the house householder holder hoMer to the tho removal remo of ot all rub rubbish rub rub- rubbish rubbish bish from cellars attics and cup cup- cupboards cupboards cup cupboards boards PROTECT OPEN LIGHTS LIGHT All open lights In a II home lie he properly protected Care should hould be he taken that curtsies or othel inflammable material can cannot cannot cannot not blow Into the of ot the gas gaslight gaslight light Screens ns should be bc placed In front of ot open fireplaces so that no one can accidentally get set hIs I cloths In contact with ith the flame Lighted matches cigar or cig- cig cig aret butts should be properly dis- dis dis disposed posed of Hot water watH not fires should be used to thaw tha froyen froen water pipes Every Cry Individual ual 0 owes es It to himself neighbors his family and his neigh neigh- neighbors bors to use ever every means possible to remo remove c tho causes of fire In Inthe Inthe inthe the home lie should realize that or thoughtlessness on his part may not only e him of his lila property but cause loss Ions and suffering to others since a fire rapidly The householder should hould therefore be constantly alert and e ever eer er on the lookout for ri things which may result In a In 01 Ing the lo loss los of home homo and possibly ot of lives lives's 00 |