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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Setwrdey, Octsber 8, 1960 7 Inspection Of Home Will Reduce Hazards The Oshawa Fire Depariment's spective aress, they may he dis-| "This program ls entirely vol "in services' home inspection pro- pitched to the scene luted untary on the part of the home gram, designed (0 Resist GWners iy wolowner or occupant but we tras ¢ in the elimination. During the period May 12 to) " viens potential fire Sept, 0, 1960, & tors) of 4397 cally that SL silizons will Avail tho. Razards, in the home, has been were made, and 3091 actus! home "VFS fi sarvieg J the hy quite successful this year inspections completed, asin we / controlling fhe i {"'Phis program, instituted in 1956. A record Is evi of wll callsiBecommary SES waste (hroug {hos heen operative for the pastimade, snd the various hazards ype i \three years, during the months of noted during these inspections, Al. Any home owner or occupant, May to October cheek of these records indicates whe may have heen away from | "The program is conducted by that fhe overfusing of dlectric|liome when the inspectors called, crews, from each of panels Is still the number one Con still receive this vite! service, Oshawa's three fire stations, In vidlation, with & total of 1568 by # 16lephone call to fire head | vidio equipped vehicles, Fach "Although sietisties Bre not Quarters, at BA 51154, ext. 41 i sation covers the ares assigned available st this date, we sincere: Only with the fullest coopers | |them, and constent radio contact ly trust (hat through this inspec: tion of all citizens, con your fire] "lis maintained with headquarters ton program, a definite reduction department achieve the desired) , [fire slarm operators, so that in is the number of home fires, will resulis ~ the elimination of un (the event of a fire in their re-iresult," it was stated, necessary home fires, 556 Lives Destroyed $120 Million Wasted madeination in the world hed ever|gsn: DON'T GIVE FIRE A Majesty hefore exceeded Canada's per|PLACE TO START. And, giving capita property eost of fire voice to the hapless victims of that dismal year--86.00 fire, especially children, women This table gives the figures 10) sod' ciderly folk: DONE LEAVE 1997 1956, 195% uU ONE, p bi 4 in 5 ALONE WITH THE HAZ fires #2 088 Lives 8 Property (millions) Population (millions) 166 1706 17686 Per eapita $8Bo5 $7.06 $682 The simplest factor behind 90 CITY OF OSHAWA PROCLAMATION! Fire Prevention Week - October 9-15 On the direction of City Council, | hereby proclaim the week of Cctober 9th - 15th as Fire Prevention Week in the City of Oshawa, I coll upon the citizens of our City to observe Fire Prevention Week by giving particular attention to conditions which might exist in the home, store or factory, creating fire hazards danger~ ous to life and property. "on duty" We can help to prevent loss of life and property by obeying the safety rules and heeding the advice of the Fire Chief which ap- pears elsewhere in this issue of the newspaper and will appear in some issues during the coming week, Lyman A. Gifford, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF OSHAWA By roysl proclamation, in Be name of Her Queen Elizabeth of Canada, 0 tober 918 Is Fire Prevention Week, The proclamation sppesls to sil citizens to curb careless a of fire which last year claimed another heavy toll of human life and property The sum of provincial reports for 1969 * 586 lives lost * $1205 millions v consumed hy * 12,421 fires reported 1958 wo haz 19 | ARDS OF FIRE, #2421 6 $120.5 $1335 $1203 of property at - WELCOME YOUR INSPECTING FIRE FIGHTER Fire Prevention Bureau For City The Oshawa Fire Department like many other departments In Through their work fire fire prevention your department Your Home Safer For The proclamation sels out the magnitude of the human loss over the last ten years: Hibé lives and an estimated 16,000 seriously injured and scarred The direct out-of-pocket waste of the decade to the living and working places of Canada was more than one billion dollars Such a sum is double the ten. year cost of all our universities and colleges, It is twice the cost [of a Bt, Lawrence Beaway, Per haps ten times the billion dollars per cent of all fires for which it Is possible to run down a definite cause: human esrelessness and neglect While it's the "large loss fires' ($50,000 and more) which run up the yearly blll, Canada's $58,000 fire fighters believe, and with reason, that fire prevention edu cation starts in the home, For it is in the home that more than three » quarters of all fires happen, It is in the home | that- three-quarters of all fire Fire Prevention Is Everyone's Business !! Inspection Your home Is your castle! This tradition is sacred to the pro gram of voluntary home inspec: tion by the fire service, That isl why the Inspection of any home Is subject to the friendly wish of the owner or tenant, without involve. ment of any kind | If a tire fighter knocks at your door, let him in, His aim Is to! help you uncover fire hazards and bring them to attention He will ask to see the kitchen, | basement, yard You can refuse if you wish, If you're wise, you will accept his| iuggestions, as have hundreds of | thousands of Canadians, NO EXPENSE What he has to say concerns deaths occur Consequently, the fire fighter | particularly directs his eountry- ragle as is the record, there wide message his year to four toning, if short-term as Million homes: CHECK YOUR ody ' HOME AGAINST FIRE HAZ In 1987 our fire losses reached ARDS an alltime high, Probably no Comes, . OPEN HOUSE etl Ui Ge FIRE PREVENTION WEEK at all OSHAWA FIRE STATIONS October 9th to 15th was the indirect loss to the na- tional economy, Nor does the figure include forest fire waste Canada, maintains a full time able to eliminate many existing Fire Prevention Bureau. This and potential fire hazards, and in branch of the service consists of many instances have heen able a fire prevention officer, one cap: to provide adequate tain and two full time inspectors, safety practices for building of with additional part time inspec. cupanis tors drawn from the fire fighting! Like all programs of thi ranks, as required its The work of the Fire Prevention fullest co-operation on the part of Bureay includes the regular those ible the main year-round inspections of all mer: tenance and safety of bullding cantile, industrial and public inspecled bldgs,, schools, churches, ete; During the period Jan, 1 to the inspection of all ofl burner Sept, 30, 1060, the Oshawa Fire and oil and gasoline storage tank Department Inspectors have con installations, All building plans, ducted a total of 4078 Inspec with the exception of private tions homes, are checked and marked Fire prevention malerials are as to fire safety requirements, available for those interested and School five drills, films and for distribution at fire prevention apoakiers, or. sghoul ohildren a maging. Poe-p Week| other 1 oi re part rin ire Prevention Weel of a shah ¥ to 18, voir fire department |e safety of your home, perhaps your own life, There's no expense | Make Sure That Your Property is Fully Covered By Insurance! more fre is pt foo, the enduring ol. | success is dependent on the respons for An Invitation 1s extended to all citizens to visit us during this week, during the hours of 2-4 pm, and 7 - 9 p.m. Fire Prevention materials will be Assistance is also lent to the will conduct an all-out drive for Junior fire marshal program in {the prevention of fire, in addition |) Yo and It doesn't add to your| local schools, to ita regular inspection PrOEYam. | "He wears a fire fighter's uni: {form and bears credentials, His shoes are clean, He doesn't call in , Fi Chi f Asks {had weather sp that he won't ire 1© dirty the floor, [ He's a person of pleasant per: | » sonality, carefully selected for Aid itizens | he job, If his eall is convenient he will leave courteously, He is at your door either under Oshawa Fire Chief Ray Hobbs 'pul an the spot' as far as we are 3 planned municipal program =| today elaborated his "philosophy concerned, QF course, if our Visitigr at your own invitation of persuasion" by which he hope Yi ges Somethig Sorripdy. dat Wide publie iy commerolal| ere LIE 0 s Hives of hui 8 that the community will e0-0per: others in the home or next door iy Rings hn Qakuda nual subsoil ate In rooting out '"ecarveless responsibilil hould be mel by home and the owner's privacy are causes" of fire in the home, to both the householder and by ours pespected, Nevertheless, it 1s in make the city one of the "fire selves. Surely no one can quarrel the home that three-quarters of safest' places in Canada, for sige with that, And as to ignorance of all fire and population "We can succeed,' declared the Chief, "if we have the help of every man, woman and child in spreading the idea that fire pre: vention Is a personal matter, It needs only the acceptance by each individual of responsibility in the elimination of simple fire hazards "Few of us like to show an un tidy house to callers," he said "Yet a tidy house seldom burns So why wait until the fire fighter calls to clean out rubbish, old papers and. the like? And as fear of real or fancied conse quences, no one is to and rubbish, were improper elec going to be equipment fire and its causes, why not real the fire fighter lke you would a dootor, as a friend, realizing that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure The Chief told of the remark able co-operation given hy citi dons when unttermed members of his "department made calls al thelr homes, ways and means whereby the family might without ine convenience, expense or other in volvement, rid themselves of hagards, Instanced besides trash courtesy lO suggest trical fusing and faulty heating loss of family lite More and more across the na tion, voluntary or courtesy home Inspection has heen established as an effective approach to the prob: lem, While the program is high Hahted during Fire year oeeur so often with tragic Prevention Week, It can apply throughout the OSHAWA FIRE DEPARTMENT available for those interested H. R. Hobbs, Chief A Message from Oshawa's Fire Chief... TO ALL CITIZENS OF OSHAWA AND DISTRICT... "DON'T GIVE FIRE A PLACE TO START", IS THIS YEAR'S SLOGAN FOR FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, BEING OBSERVED NATONALLY DURING THE R07 CANADA'S DISGRACE! It Is the world's most gruesome highway, For Canada, it is a national dis. grace, It is a highway 5,000 miles fong, stretching from the Atlantic te the Pacific, On both sides of the highway, on lots 100 feet apart, there are homes, an eighth of the homes of Canada, These are the homes which have been struck by fire, At every mile of the highway, there is a cairn for the dead, More than 500,000 homes destroyed or damaged by fire! More than 5,000 victims of fire! Since the birth of Canada? Ne. Only in the last 10 years. That is the tra apie picture of Canadian carelessness with fire in the home, The lesson of Fire Prevention Week, October 9-15; Keep off this highway, by not giving fire a place to WEEK OCTOBER 9 TO 15, AND | ONCE AGAIN URGE EACH AND EVERY. ONE OF YOU TO DO YOUR PART IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE CAUSES OF FIRE IN THE HOME, FACTORY AND PLACE OF BUSINESS, -- SEE The ever: increasing loss of property, personal possessions, household articles and the tragic loss of life, from the ravages of fire, point out the necessity of an all-out effort by all citi zens, in daing his or her part in the prevention of fire, The Fire Prevention Bureau of the Oshawa Fire Department conduct regular year 'round inspections of public, industrial and mercantile buildings, institutions, schools, etc, and an "in service' home inspection program is cars ried out by on-duty crews at all three Oshawa fire stations during the months, May ta Octo. ber, in an effort to eliminate any and all existing or potential fire hazards, The results achieved in these inspection programs are dependent on the full co-operation of all citis zens. Won't you do your part in reducing unnecessary fire waste, and thereby make Oshawa a safer place in which to live? The Oshawa Fire Department's inspection staff stand ever ready ond willing to assist in this vital work, "Open House' will again be held during Fire Prevention Week, when all three Oshawa fire stations will be open to the general public. Fire Preven. tion material will be available and we shall be pleased to hear from any interested group who might wish to have films and/or speakers at their meetings during the year. A telephone coll to fire headquarters at RA 5.1154, ext. 41, approximately two weeks in advance of your meeting, will provide time to arrange films and speakers Be your own fire inspector, check your home and place of business it you have any doubts whatsoever, as to the safety of vour premises the Oshawa Fire Department for any necessary assistance Once again | urge each and everyone of you to do your part. in our fire prevention program in the elimination of all existing end potential fire hazards REMEMBER -- If you do your part and. "DON'T GIVE FIRE A PLACE T START", then you can be poli that Qshawa will be "a Fodigi id . HN. G. ROUGHLEY LTD, Insurance, 64 King E. which to live", MN. R. Mobls, Fire Chief SCHOFIELD INSURANCE ASSOC, LTD, 6 Simcoe OSHAWA FIRE DEPARTMENT N ' start in your home, BEFORE FIRE STRIKES, BE SURE YOU ARE PROPERLY PROTECTED BY AN AGENT WHOSE SOLE BUSINESS IS INSURANCE PROTECTION, CONSULT A MEMBER OF THE OSHAWA & DISTRICT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIA- TION, 3A Jen INSURANCE AGENCY, 208 Celina | 8 BRADLEY BROS. Insurance, 29}4 Simcoe St, OAKLEY CRAWFORD, Insurance, 51 King E, EDWARD L. DISNEY, Insurance, 82 Simcoe S, STANLEY EVERSON, Insurance, 15 King E, NH. L, GRAY, Insurance, 85 Oshawa Bivd, N, McCALLUM INSURANCE, 521 Rossland W, McMURTRY INSURANCE AGENCY, 21 King St, W, MURDOCH GENERAL INSURANCE SERVICE, 2. Ontario St. 1m OSHAWA INSURANCE AGENCIES LTD, Simcoe St, MACOCN40YD INSURANCE LTD, 22'4 King t, 8 DONALD M. POLSON, Insurance, 495 Masson St, A. §. ROSS, Insurance, § King Street W, LY, COL. R, B, SMITH, Insurance, 80 Athol St, W, FRANK E. TURNEY, Insurance, 47 Prince St, RALPH VICKERY, Insurance, 39 Prince St. JOHN WACKO, Insurance, 136 Simcoe St, §, W. B, WHITE, Insurance Ltd,, 110 King St, E, W, R, WESTLAKE, Insurance, 211 Mary St, E. L. WHITELY, Insurance, 111 Sutherland St, W. R, EAMERSON, 140 Dundas St, E,, Whitby STUART C. ROBLIN, 1028 Byron St, S., Whitby A. J, SCHATZ, 304 Dundas St, W,, Whithy GEO. H, VICK LTD,, 18 Brock St. N,, Whitby JOHN L, LAY, 107 Kingston Rd, E,, Pickering C. E, MORLEY, Pickering STUART R, JAMES, 24 King E,, Bowmanville NELSON OSBORNE, 7 Lovers Lane, Bowmanville NEIL F, PORTER, Orone H. W, EMMERSON, Port Perry HOLDEN EMMERSON, 53 King St, E,, Oshawe ond, call DONT LET THIS HAPPEN 10 YOu