Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-07

Please don't kindie fires in stoves with Kerosene. } Please don't put hot ashes and coal in wooden barrels or boxes.
 Please don't thaw out frozen pipes with a torch or lamp.
 Pleast don't allow waste paper, ex- celsior and rubbish to collect
 Please don't use gasolene for clean ing in a closed closet
 Please don't look for gas leaks with match or lamp.
 Please. don't allow lace curtains near gas brackets.
 Please dop't allow oily rags near stoves or about premises
 Please don't allow sawdust to bs used for cuspidors or on floors.
 Please don't throw waste paper on fire in n fire place.
 Please don't throw cigarettes or cigars away if lighted.
 Please don't keep matches in paper boxes or lying about csrelessly. =, Please don't hang your clothes near open fires or stoves.
 Please don't use parior matches. | (Taboo them.)
 Please don't hll lamps after dark and never when lighted. Please don't allow rubbish in hall- ways or fire escapes ---s -- Please don't burn leaves or dead grass on windy days. Please don't forget to have the chinneys of your homes cleaned each year.
 Please don't forget that matches ars the beginning of confiagrations. Please don't fail to look twice al everything that looks like a fire. Please don't fail to notify the chiei | of the fire department of anything | you may see that is dangerous and II. able to cause fire. remembering thai ! every day Is fire prevention day ir Norwich, Conn.
 Learn To's.
 Learn to locate the fire alarm bo, | nearest your home. I Learn to send in an alrm from any box in the city fin case of fire ! Learn to- ask any officer or mem. Der of the fire department who wili in. | struct you.
 Learn to stay near the box wher pulled for fire to direct the firemen.
 Learn to look up the telephone mum. Der of the nearest fire station to youl home.
 | Learn to have the telephone mum. Der on a card near the phone.
 Learn to speak distinctly when call. 1 ing the department by phone.
 Learn to. give the location of tho fire. not say, come up to my hous, quick.
 Learn to use a fire extinguisher own one If possible.
 Learn to have two six quart paiIs | If needed, they are handy.
 Learn to look for exits in theatres | public halls and buildings
 Learn to keep on the sidewalk wher appartus Is going to a fire.
 Learn to give the right way to tn, fire department when responding tt an alarm.
 Learn to look on printed fire alarn cards for instructions and alarm sig nals | Learn to judge which is best il case of fire. telephone call or bo, alarm.
 l Learn 10 give. the firemen credi when they deserve it, 1t Learn to realize that the fire de [ partmcnt is ready at all times to re spond to fires within 90 seconds aft CT any alarm Is sent in. Learn that delay in sending fin a, alarm is responsible for every larg fire that occurs in every city. Ina II with snow on the ground and tw mile run up hill the department mus be notified quickly to be of any ser vice. The most efficient service i rendered If the department arrive . within three minutes after the fir breaks out Finally. help the fir prevention movement by assisting tn fire department fin preventing fires an ? should fire occur send in an alarr quickly.