Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-28
FIGHTING FIRE IN The HOME.

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loss OF all the building cost; danger
of loss of pictures aud gifts Of absent
or dead dear ones. and other precious
things that money could not set
again. But IN few houses. very fen.
Is there anything az hand with which
TO put out a starting fire, that would
make ashes OF these household treas
ures and Of the home as well, says
/ The Timcs-Union.
A ladder Is often needed 20 get
water 10 a FIRE started In the roof,
or attic. By sparks and 20 save the
lives Of persons On the upper stories.
for a fire in a dwelling sOol makes
The stairway impa sable from smoke
or flames. A ladder can be made in
day. or bought ready made for S..
I'm a farm house kitchen there
should be a bucket kept full Of water
with which 70 stay a starting fire.
The bucket used for water for cook
ing and drinking is full less than
half the time. and may be- empty at
the wrong time. Fire buckets are
made with round bottoms and held
up by a shelf with a hole I'm IL. or
hung on a nail One could not put
10 any other use a bucket that would
not stand on its own bottom so 10
would not be removed from ats place.
In winter salt Is put In the water in
fire bucket 10 keep IL from frcez-
ing. Such a bucket should be kept
on each floor OF every home. They
may be hidden In ornamental boxes.
The most effective piece OF appa-
ratus for putting out a starting fire
Is one Of the metal tanks known as
"carbonic acid gas extinguishers."
which are seen on nearly every
fire department wagon. They
hold two bucketfuls Of water and
have a diameter One-third their
height At the top OF the tank is a
piece OF hose a yard long When the
tank Is invested. ready for use. sui
Dhuric acid Is spilled. from a bottle
In It's top. into a cupful OF baking
soda. When they get together soda
water Is formed which makes n pros
sure that will throw the water and
gas in the tank forty feet. or into in
closed places which could not be
reached with a water bucket.
The gas carried by the water helps
greatly In smo;hering the flames. n
water carrying carbOnic acid Is
thrown on a fire between a ceiling
and the floor above Il. the blaze f.
smothered az once by lack OF air
This eXtiuguisher is most used from
above the blaze. because c3rbOnic
acid gas being heavier than air falls.
Each oi the three gallons OF water
in the can takes out with it twenty
gallons OF gas Firamen have car
bonic acid tanks holding forty gal
Ions. which are called chemical ,u-
gincs. for use on fires tL3t have leuit-
ed only one or two room-. They
cause little water damage.
Twcuty-onc makers OF these cN-
! tinguishers have them officially test.
cd with a pressure OF ESQ pounds r1
the square inch. so there is no danger
of one Of them exploding Will. iu
the embrace OF the user There De-
ing no trust In the business. comprti-
tion will probably keep the prices
right
Tubes Of dry powder eXtingui-her
have In them baking soda to ta.ov
ON a fre. Firemeu think t., .ry
soda In them OF little use.
Hand grenades are bottles OF fluid
which are kept for breaking on a
starting fire. Many of them contain
ammonia 90 choke a blaze. Grcnaics
are little used except In ships
Any substance must be- made hot
before Il will take FIRE When tho
heat Is great enough 90 loosen the
atoms Of carbon In IL. so they can Join
atoms of the oxygen In the air which
they dearly love. there b. a blaze.
Anything that will cool the burning
substance. 30 there o. mo- longer heat
enough to turn loose the carbon
atoms. will put out tho IRE
| Water takes more heat away from
burning material than ans other 1u.l
Tor substance. a fire rhlr would heat
water Co .I2 degrees Flhr,ur..t r. E
ing b. boil would make luy other
material very much hotter Water
|couls tho rodhHt gnH'. AND 1 stops
.tae fire. A-II. from th.- 1.'u- H'