This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...fire starts somewhere in the United States. Every hour two lives are lost and seven persons are injured through fire. Every day enough property value is destroyed by fire to feed and clothe a city of 50,000 people for ten days. Every week the fire loss is enough to build 100 miles of good macadam road. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...fire starts somewhere in the United States. Every hour two lives are lost and seven persons are injured through fire. Every day enough property value is destroyed by fire to feed and clothe a city of 50,000 people for ten days. Every week the fire loss is enough to build 100 miles of good macadam road. Every month the loss from fire is equivalent to a sum of money which would buy the grounds, erect the buildings, and provide an endowment to pay the running expenses of a large college. In a year, the money value of fire losses would pay salaries, books, and supplies for all public education in the entire United States for more than half a year. Charles W. Baker, in an address entitled "A Street of Desolation," said in speaking of the damage done in a single year that " the buildings consumed, if placed on lots of 65 feet frontage, would line both sides of a street extending from New York to Chicago. A person journeying along this street of desolation would pass in every thousand feet a ruin from which an injured person was taken. At every three quarters of a mile in this journey he would encounter the charred remains of a human being who had been burned to death." Why are there so many fires?--Are these losses by fire necessary? What causes the fires? Many fires are reported as " cause unknown," but a study of the causes in a large number of other cases shows that the principal cause of fires is Carelessness. No one of us can truthfully say that he has not been careless about such matters. It is time that we begin a new era of thoughtful, careful attention to the ways and means of safeguarding the home, the business houses, and the factories against fire. Sources of fires in the home.--The cause of about 90%...
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