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[23 sence CPage "4 My Pledge for Fire Safety I pledge to remove fire hazards from my home daily. The Haileyburian I will not kill by smoking in bed | or being. careless when I do smoke. I will not clean clothes or start fires with gasoline or other flammable liquids. I will not throw away matches without first being sure they are out. I will check my- heating appliances and chimneys at regular inter- vals. I will not place hot ashes and coals in anything but a metal con-| tainer and will not leave these | containers sitting on a wooden floor. I will protect all woodwork close to smoke pipes with asbestos and metal, leaving an air space of at least two inches between this protection and the pipe. I will not do electrical repairs un- less I am a qualified electri- cian. I will not use pennies, hairpins, foil and such as electric fuses. Canada's Disgrace It is the world's most gruesome highway. For Canada, it is a na- | tional disgrace. It is a highway 5,000 miles long, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. On both sides of the highway, on Jots 100 feet apart, there are 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 destroy- ed or damaged by fire! More than 5,000 victims of fire! Since the birth of Canada? No. Only in the last ten years. That is the tragie picture of Canadian carelessness with fire in the home and everywhere. Tips on Fire Extinguishers If you have a fire extinguisher in your home but don't know how to use it properly, you're living in a fool's paradise if you rely on it to do a job in emergency. This is a straight-from-the- shoulder warning by one of the na- tion's senior fire prevention offi- cers. Some tips: Read the instructions on the housing of the extinguisher and bone up on them at intervals. Know what the extinguisher is capable of doing. Some types are ineffective in certain 'situations. Know what these are. Because extinguishers in general have a short operating time, there's no point in starting yours going when you're 50 feet away from the fire. By the time you close in on the blaze, its effect may be lost. Be Careful With Blow Torch Fire safety is no accident and this is particularly true for the "'do-it-yourself" operator around the home. Here are practical hints from the experience of Canada's 57,000 fire fighters, pretty self-re- Hant fellows themselves in the family chores and crafts. Blow torches and welding equip- ment. No other equipment has - greater "built-in" hazards. Fuel and light out-of-doors. You're ask- ing for-trouble- when you light a torch in a crowded space to thaw out frozen water pipes. - Gasoline and other fuels. Never store in glass bottles, which may. fall and break, igniting or vapor- izing and exploding." Clean up shavings, sawdust. and other debris after each day's work. _A tidy work area will. make the} next go at the job:a happier and: a. faster - one. Thursday; October 12, 1961 ateetaiaae SIXTY (60) Fi RE ATTIC 1--Rubbish and litter. 2--Lighted matches, candies, 3--Matches in pockets of stored clothing. 4--Flammable liquids, especially in bottles. 5--Electric drop cord. hung on nail. GARAGE 6--Open gas container, 7--Oily rags, old papers, rwbbish--spontaneous combustion danger. &--No fire resistant insulation in partition walls, ceiling. $--Loose -light. bulb, wiring. 10--Defective car fuel or ignition system. 11--Oil-filled. floor. 12--No fire door into house (any door here likely con- trary to municipal : ordin- ance.) LIVING ROOM 13--No fireplace screen. 14--Broken fireplace flue. 15--Curtains, papers near open fire. THE MA' Town of Haile ybur Urges You to Check Your Home _ 16--Smouldering hind cushion. 17--Skimpy ash trays. 18--Worn. electric wiring under carpet. 19--Tinder dry Xmas tree, bad wiring; broken bulbs. Tree should stand in water. No candles; please! beh 20--Careless _ smoking, any- where, anytime. For ex- ample, the drowsy time of watching the late 'TV Show. 21--Ash tray emptied into waste basket. f ; CELLAR 22--Soot-filled pipes. Acid from soot eats holes in the pipes. In a climate where. homes need warmth at least eight months a year, any heating defect invites disaster. cigarette be- 23--Rubbish . and litter, -near : furnace: : : 24--Flammable liguids,. -gaso- line; etc., stored near heat. 25--Hot ashes. 26--Paint cloths, oil rags left carelessly. 27--30 amp. electric fuse. Use of of anything but 15 amp. size for ordinary household wir- ing is like muzzling the watch dog. Pennies, hair- pins, foil as fuses. Surefire! 28--Use of matches or open lights to check gas leaks. 28--Blow torches thawing out 'frozen pipes, especially in cramped location. TRAPS workshop hazards: (oil-hungry) el- wood shav- 31--Home overloaded ectric motors, ings. KITCHEN 32--Curtain, towel, blowing against hot pipes. pipe. 33--Flammable cleaning fluids. 34--Unehecked stoye draft. 35--Oil-soaked floor under stove or heater. ; laundry. stove E 36--Hot stove grease (no. rug, sand, even baking soda handy to smother flare-up. 37--Hot. ashes in woden box. -- . 38--Dust, flour thrown into stove (or furnace). Explosion haz- ard. 39--Dirty mops, cleaning rags stored in closet. 40--Kerosene (coal oil used to quicken stubborn fire. 41--Peeling wallpaper near stove pipe. No pipe collar going through wall. 42--Forgotten hot iron, 43--Loese matches -- invitation to playful young hands. 44--Unsnuffed- matcb thrown into garage pail. FRONT YARD 30--No fire stop between rafters | at every level of the home). 45--Refuse, garbage, old leaves. COUNCIL of the cardboard, How Many In Your Home? DINING. ROOM 46--Lighted wax candles, espe- cially at party time. ; 47--Bad wiring of toasters and appliances, underneath car- a DEX: CHILDREN' Ss ROOM -- 4g-_Frayed wiring of electric toys. 4$--Oi1 control valve of space -heater (deadly hazard for _ - young hands anywhere). 50--Loose- matches. _ BATHROOM 51--Touching electrical switches while wet. For unconscious victims of -shock call. Fire Department for inhalator, ROOF 52--Wood. joists. close to chim-. "ney. Sagging, they weaken bricks, break open flue lin- ing. : ; >53--Ungrounded TV aerial. ' 54--Sparks on roof. BEDROOM 55--Smioking in bed. 56--"Octopus"'. electric plug connection underneath bed. 57--Portable oil space heater especially dangerous here. Bed - making, sheet - waving can cause draft, cause ex- plosion. 58--Lighting matches to look in closet. 59--"Strike anywhere"' matches. §0--In case you missed it -- smoking in bed! AND To Prevent Fires Before They _ | Start. a