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Show Fire Control A Science Fire control is an exact science. Its practitioners fit themselves for their work by study and experience exper-ience exactly as do lawyers, engineers en-gineers or the followers of any other profession. Every step forward in our industrial in-dustrial development means, as a rule, increased fire hazards. The chance of a flre occurring in the average factory or residence of today Is greater than it was a few decades ago. The necessity of giving giv-ing continuous, undivided attention atten-tion to fire control becomes steadily stead-ily more apparent. There is not a community in the country, large or small, which can afford to be without a first-class first-class flre department. Almost any department,, no matter how ill-trained ill-trained its members, or how basically bas-ically inefficient its apparatus, looks good in a parade. All we se are the uniforms and red paint The test conies when a fire breaks out. It is then that men and machines ma-chines show what they are made of. Standard apparatus built entirely en-tirely with an eye to quality and not cost alone, is capable of operating oper-ating hour after hour, under the most difficult conditions, without loss of efficiency. Sub-standard or assembled apparatus has a habit of breaking down when most needed. I A "cheap" fire department is a real luxury. It is liable to cost a community, in the long run, a thousand or ten thousand times the cost of a pood department The list of great fires which could have been extinguished had the fire department been a little mere efficient, Is a long one as Is the list of potentially great fires which have been quickly conquered conquer-ed by modern apparatus in the hands of first-class personnel. I |