B.C. LUMBER WORKER 7

A Place To Start”

fire whi last year claimed a
property waste.

The Hive story is told by
1957 provineial reports: a total

appeals to all citizens to curb careless causes of

Canada’s fire loss is
world’s worst

y royal proclamation the week

of October 5-11 has

record toll of humah life and

est fire waste.

The ieaeedy i is that most of the
in

loss of $134,700,000. Both figures
are

686,205 fire: the dec: ade were

And, giving voice to the hap
less victims, especially eauaie
women and Aiea folk: DON’T
LEAV ALONE WITH
THE AZARDS OF FIRE.

Grimly underlying the dana
is the dusgracefu 1 fa et that, p
fire loss a one

an all-time high.
The massive ErepereOns of the .
out

toll over a

ing and working places was

This is the message
Prevention Weel
ind | fire

fire fighter
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lect of simple rules of fire
aS and common sense.
27,000 Fighters

for Fire

from Canada’s

a nee of 27,000

rs, professional and vol-

ervices,

nlit match level
with, and an inch away from a
candle flame. The match doesn’t
light. But hold the same-match
four inches directly above .the
candle flame and the match

ye z commbus don gases. Now

Heat Ris yo
Heat rises. And so ‘Go the see
gasi

silperhoanad gases
are the killers

open doors and get to windows.

of the burni

eM jobs ig building
iatojetenta pane in the roof, It’s
to let the superheated’ gases out,

seaways. The indirect loss

er,
at Fire Prevention Week but
it hi

of

three-

quarters of dwelling~ aie ‘etme
W.

as national economy was per-
haps ten times this amount.

r'do the figures include for-

very day of the year
in every place of Canada

The message is: DON’T GIVE
FIRE A PLACE TO START.

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GET A GOOD GRIP ON THINGS!

flame. One lungful Y was
enous EE 2 knock th
pose it wi
pie providentially us ia

sl th
‘0 check, you | preee yourself and
bslightly open it
_Searin

i
utes for a sm:
ig one. Th

And What | of t the safety of your
loved ones?
The: time to think of them is
‘ight no
Talk over with them now ee
each should do in the awful m
mene of fire,
mber: HOT GASES, HOT

this shoo aaiclel
tal time:

y otarin
It takes only fee four min-
ll fire to pene
ur minutes are

Draft
190 doubt about tl
coat s draft, If others are in the
house, you shout warning: don’

a
ives it a
chance to start in rite) frst ane
youl re splendidly home free of

Actually,-a Fire Prevention

Day was first observed in
Nova Scotia, Ontario and

day.

Toa formes Canale Rev.
ing, now re-

T.
tired at 84 in Cleveland, Ohio,

Canadian credited for
fire week idea

ut one time resident of

Owen Sound,. Ontario, goes

much personal credit for the
shi eff

“steam” behind the ort’s
establishment. A 1909 fire in
an Ohio scloal, ane as
children ey ae
vforgot to k

locked, gave Mtr. Fling the
germ of the idea.