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Show Fire In Homes An authority points out that about ten per cent of America's hall-billion dollar annual fire loss represents damage done to homes. Approximately $00,000,000 of domestic do-mestic propc-icy is destroyed each year. Most of this waste can be laid to car-.-lessness, neglect, or faliK economy in the matter of home con. Iruction. Practically all home iires are preventable. Defective flues ana clecuic wiring, lack ot fire stops and the like are the causes of a tcirtbie amount of suffering and a gigantic waste. The only solution to the problem is knowledge and unceasing vigi-ance vigi-ance in the part of home owners. Hues should be periodically cleaned; clean-ed; wiring should be inspected and when necessa 'y replaced; attention should be given to heating plants, care should be tr.ken in disposing of waste oi all kinds. These are little things that can bo accomplished accomp-lished at small expense in either time or money. Yet they may be the means of preventing a great conflagration. It should be remembered that fire is every citizen's problem. Whether or not our own property is damaged, we pay for every fire in the communty, large or smail. Fire loss is reflected in business conditions, in employment, in taxes for fire departments, in home building and industrial development. de-velopment. Not to take the steps that prevent fire is to be guiity jf criminal neglect. |