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EDITORIAL – HELPING TO PREVENT FIRES
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 6 October 1931]
This is Fire Prevention Week and Fire Chief Stapf is appealing to all citizens to remove any accumulations of paper or refuse from either inside or outside their premises and to also see that flues and chimneys are properly cleaned.
It has long been recognized that cleanliness and orderliness contribute very much to the prevention of fire. For years, one of the important activities of the Welland fire department has been the education of the public in this regard. The distribution of literature, parading of fire apparatus adorned with significant signs, talks to the school children and articles in the newspaper have been some of the means used to impress the people with doing everything possible to prevent an outbreak of fire.
The fire record locally, in recent years, has been a creditable one and it has been doubtless due, in no small measure, to the educational propaganda carried on under the direction of Fire Chief Stapf.
Besides the prevention of fire, there is an advantage to health in doing away with accumulations of rubbish. Piles of refuse or decaying garbage provide breeding places for flies which may spread disease throughout a community.
It is in the interests of all concerned to keep the city clean and tidy and the efforts of the fire chief should be accorded the hearty co-operation of citizens generally.
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