Show THE CASE OF THE GLASS JISO It was a beautiful fall brisk but relatively and Neil Fernau and his were sitting in their living room in enjoying a brand new television set which Neil had brought home earlier in the day on Suddenly the quiet air was pierced by the wailing of the town It meant only one thing a dreaded fear in any rural Since Neil is a member of the local volunteer fire he grabbed his jacket and was gone in an he approached the he saw a small home completely Then coming closer he could hear a man frantically boy's in the somebody do my boy's still in Neil ran over to the fire secured an asbestos donned and entered the burning of the terrific smoke and abundance of burning he was unable to find the small As he turned to leave the he came upon a form lying on the He gathered it into his arms and retreated from the blazing What he had found sent a sickening pain through his stomach it was the charred body of the little boy's A few minutes as the fire subsided a he re-entered the house and found what he had been looking for the body of the little children died as a result of the The father later gave his account of the Earlier in the evening he had purchased gasoline from a local petroleum dealer in a glass He took the jug home and set it on the floor in the kitchen of his Some time later he heard the jug and by nature picked it As he lifted the jug from the the bottom fell out of spilling the gasoline over a great portion of the He went on to say that while mopping up the liquid a gas refrigerator ignited the blowing him through the door and out of the He looked up to sec the house ablaze and the family still The result was that two innocent children lost their and the mother and two other children were critically The of this true story is If the petroleum dealer had been alert and he woud have never filled that glass jug with gasoline for he knows gasoline is to be sold only in metal It is very probable that had this simple rule been there would have been no fire and no Fortunately this was not a local since it is possible that of us may have sold gasoline in a glass or unmarked in the or unmarked container in the or may be tempted do so in the it might well to remember Case of the Glass |