206 FIRE PREVENTION IN THE HOME 



Fire and its dangers. You may have been fortunate 

 enough never to have lost your home or loved ones through 

 fire, but nevertheless that danger is always with us. It 

 stands ready for the careless moment when you give it an 

 opportunity to burst forth with its suffocating and deadly 

 flames, and many are its victims. Every week the papers 

 have accounts of destruction and suffering caused 

 by fire. Read the following clippings selected 

 from a paper in one week : 



" Mrs. Laura , 33 years old, of 66 Street, died in the 



Southside Hospital to-day from burns suffered when she attempted 

 to hurry a fire hi the kitchen stove by pouring oil over it." 



" Florence S. , three years old, of Avenue, died early 



to-day in the General Hospital from burns received yesterday, when 

 her clothing was ignited from a firecracker." 



" Dozens of lives were imperiled in a fire which destroyed the 



apartments at Avenue early this morning. Some occupants 



were carried out; others jumped from the second story window; 

 three are confined in the hospital. The damage was $4000." 



Here was a financial loss great enough to have 

 bought each one of you in the 

 class two bicycles, a pair of 

 skates, skis, and a good sled. 



" Fire which threatened to wipe out a 

 big section of Homestead caused damage 

 of upwards of $45,000. High winds car- 

 ried sparks and several other fires were 

 started. Fires were only extinguished 

 after aid arrived from surrounding bor- 

 oughs." 



The money loss in this fire 



necessary. (After Richman.) WOU ld have bought each One 



of the pupils in your class an automobile. If reports 

 of fires which have occurred in the entire United States 

 in the last twenty-four hours could be laid on your desk 



