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Show Ilfmai kablo Fire I.ohs Record Bend, Oregon, in a greit. timber ountry, had fj e looses of only about 10 cf fs pe.- ci-iita. last year; N;e-f'oik N;e-f'oik City had $27.iSl,055 total, o-ilmo-v $7 per capita. Bond cut her nationally famous 1925 record, by more than 50 per cent, as a result of :re prevention measures; New York lcre.ised her losses by $2,000,000. Some fi e loises seem unavoidable; but these are -o few as to be almost ''I liable. Fires take about 21,000 American lives each year; and nough property loss to pay for a i evolutionairy war. ' The wanton firejbuilder is poten-ially poten-ially a murderer. |