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Show Airport Fire Hazards Theme Of New Publication A new major problem for the fire prevention authorities has developed with the rapid growth of aviation. The Committee on Fire Prevention and Engineering Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters is conducting conduct-ing an intensive study of airport fire prevention and safety to life in aviation. A bulletin from the National Board states that the "recent expansion ex-pansion and expecWL-rapid-development in the field of civilian flying, together with the tremendous tremen-dous increase in scope of commercial com-mercial aviation and facilities, calls for a thorough review of the existing standards for construction construc-tion of hangers and airport fire protection." The most important phases of the study are to deal with the construction and protection of hangers and other fixed airport' installations, crash fire fighting and rescue work, and the provision provi-sion for fire detection and extinguishing extin-guishing systems on aircraft. The task of the Fire Prevention Committee Com-mittee will be to assemble allav-1 ailable aviation fire safety data 1 edit and correlate it with a view I to making available up-to-date and adequate standards to meet the minimum fire safety require-1 ments of the several classes of airports. |