NOVEL EIRE ALARM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2112, 8 April 1920, Page 2

NOVEL EIRE ALARM.

A CORRESPONDENT, “C..1.M.”, lias sent. The Dominion a, description of a lire alarm system he has installed in his house. We can all call to mind, he says, horrible instances of people being burnt to death in private houses or hotels by fires taking phfee during the dead of night, when all the inmates were asleep. This can he made impossible in a simple and inexpensive manner thus: “.My house is a large one, built; entirely of wood, and with all the bedrooms upstairs. All over it, in cupboards, behind pictures, and in various nooks and crannies, I have large Chinese crackers, which in the event of the house taking tire would explode with a report louder than that made by the discharge of an ordinary fowling-piece, and quite loud enough to arouse any but an abnormal sleeper. Should a lire lake place the ■gelling downstairs would, he an amusing sight but for the tragic surroundings. We might lose the house, and all therein, but we should escape with what we hold more precious. The cost is a mere bagatelle, and within the means of the poorest. I feel sure that the general adoption of this method would be the means of saving many people from a horrible death.”