THE FIRE FIEND.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1466, 14 June 1912, Page 2

THE FIRE FIEND.

■ ;■ : r s. nis 'ioll roil jhl \i \n , Burins the.past;year the Nfe J'!')- • eatfr f!urhci« llfctp^fires°r. ; ■ -fires;"' WW.M"ti-W&nzrn- ; tions, -lisl tccV;in?. ; .total^csiructioii rtin ebrisiHerabls.!.daiiia^^ G7 -iii ti;ifli rig. :.clain<igoi. 10 iit; chini i'flreVi in < *«. 5 'alarms."" A coin i>a riso a i or,. 1h e, '.two '.-years- s.h'psV: ■ _ Actual fires 156'liubbish and (;orso fires 2-' i .17 ; - Chimney fires '< .' J" ' .-. 1 Falfo alarm's -U " . \8»" Totals . 2W A sigiiifieant feature of. the aboyo- com■.pafisbn is-,. theSi a t!ic number of. f also''id armsj:-? Between; 0} ■p.'irif. "fi liii; ■: lii id n i g j: JiM s ; - reeej y-etl-i between in.iclitfght"-ali'tl: -6 -.-aliiu; ..sGj'.be--'tweeit6 a.m. mlhil nPoiV.'H>;.,tatweMi noon ■^iiS !: 'o'!p.ni 1 . > -^731-'vrHesojmlysis ,, qf;Hio;ca.«scs; is ~: 3 7;V<'^ss: i " th&|.cause:/vv.a»; ■iiot- afccrtninab'c.- ■. i A6;i(!\tlis.-- l ot i hers J tn-pjjj 'are, classified ■■■■ I Matches, thrown' down j27.'; -i Attributable to "candles « ■■ .. Airing clothes './. .> Ignition of benzine vapour...... ft J Spark from fire ........... -X- :,?■ tlirif* of .kerosene lamp .•) ; Dofectivo flue •.•••• '••••. 3j■ -'j Defcetive' ill-enlace :3,... l-jcpionon, Oi kerosene .damp. . i2;-'s : | Boiling: over of'fat ...... 2 ' Children playins with ma to lies 2 Defective copper flue;; Overhtatini,'' (various) • .8 Spohtanetri.; combustion .v..t " SliiokillK. ?'> '>«' - Hot n«-hes (2;' (las riiijj 2 '. 1-ill it ion .of kinem itogrsiili- filiii •. 2- ); i/ji.li'iipyvji"-Fi.-tty-seveu of thoV.l-t.'i .fires, .'iteiimd' in. 'priva{<!.-,(fjyojliiiw. ; '»l2;,;in Swardn ill uhorciipicd d\veHi:'.»s,-2 in 6i'i'-p'.-'.3 in I'vcU shop:-, -I rr. ;;rei:ir>' shqp:-',.'2 i:i, to- j ■.VHrqc nil ists*. .'sliopsV.': IV/; m [ :li..siiiji'sJ:-ojiit.L-. s<V4fprlU V;-';" 1 '. : ,sW.^' 'Xir.ety calls to (ires <A<-re received.' .'l.ffijcttiiflr alarm.'C 12 from'".!stnr ji-r.v id from the.ex(•liaii|!(> tel< phone,: alii I. tho. remaimiitt.iino. from a private liio alarm. .The total num-l her of en lis over iiino.veai> warlPH, in-c-reasii!j! from' .131- (1 IT'.l-l) ;to-278'-for the year just ;el.oseil;^