The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-27
FIRE IN THE HOME.

cular on flrc ask lne question, "no|
should he feared more than the burn
ing of the home? There is danger OF
loss OF all the building cost; danger
of loss Of pictures and gifts of absent
or dear ones. and other precious things
that money could not get again. But In
few homes, very few, is there any
thing at hand with which to put out
starting fire, that would make ashes
of these household treasures and oil
the home as well
A ladder is often needed to get
water to a fire on the roof OF attic,
by sparks and to save the lives oil,
persons in the upper stories. for
FIRE in a dwelling soon makes the
stairway impossible from smoke and
flames. A ladder can be made in
day. or bought ready made for three
dollars.
In a farm house kitchen there should
be a bucket kept full Of water with
which to stay a starting fire. The
bucket used for water for cooking 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 shelf
with a hole in 1t, OF hung on nall.
One could not put to any other use
bucket that would not stand on It's
own bottom SO 1t would not be remoy-
ed from its place. In winter salt Is
put in the water in a fire bucket TO
keep it from freezing. Such a bucket
should be kept on each floor OF every
home. They may be hidden by orna-
mental boxes
The most effective piece of appa-
ratus for putting out starting fire
is one of the metal tanks known as
"carbonic acid gas extinguishers"
which are seen on nearly every fire de-
partment wagon. They hold two
bucketfuls of water and have a
diameter one-third their height. At
the top Of the tank is piece Of hose
a yard long. When the tank is invert-
ed, ready for use, sulphuric acid is
spilled. from a bottle in It's top into
cup full of baking soda. When they
get together soda-water is formed
which makes a pressure that Will
throw the water and gas In the tank
forty feet, into enclosed placed which
could not be reached with a water
bucket
The gas carried by the water helps
greatly in smothering the flame. II
water carrying carbonic acid gas Is
thrown on a fire between a ceiling
and the floor above ii, the blaze is
smothered at once by lack of air The
eXtinguisher is worth most when used
above the blaze, because carbonic acid
gas. being heavier than air. falls. Each
of the three gallons of water In the
can, takes out with 1t twenty gallons
of gas. Firemen have carbonic acid
tanks holding forty gallons, which are
called chemical engines. for use on fires
that have ignited only one or two
rooms. They cause little water dam
age.
Twenty-one makes OF these eX-
tinguishers have them officially tested
with a pressure OF $50 pounds to the
square inch, so there is no danger of
one Of them exploding while in the
embrace of the user. There being no
trust in the business, competition will
probably keep the prices right.
Tubes Of dry powder extinguisher"
have in them baking soda to throw
on the fire Firemen think dry soda
in them of little use.
Hand grenades are bottles full OF
fluid which are kept for breaking on
a starting fire. Many of them contain
ammonia for checking the blaze. Gre
najes are little used except in ships
Any substance must be made hot
before it will take fire. When the
heat is great enough to loosen the
atoms of carbon in 1t, so they can join
atoms of the oxygen In the all
which they dearly love, there Is q
blaze. Anything that Will cool the
burning subsance, so there Is no long
er heat enough to turn loose the car
bon atoms, will put out the fire
Water takes moro heat away from
burning material than any other fluid
or substance. A fire that would heal
water to PIP degree Faherenheit, max
Ing 1t boil. would make any other ma
terial very much hotter Water cools
the red hot Goals and 30 stops the fire
Aside from this deluge of waite,
keeps the air away from burning sub
stances. And, too, water on fire ii
changed TO steam and that change
draws away heat
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