Housewives Too Can Help With Fire Prevention Program

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Chester Historical Society

Housewives Too Can Help With Fire Prevention Program clipping.: The newspaper clipping from October 4, 1956, discusses the involvement of housewives in fire prevention programs, emphasizing the importance of creating awareness around fire safety at home. It highlights a fire safety event where firemen instruct a group of children on using a fire alarm box. The text encourages community participation in fire safety, urging babysitters to learn fire laws and households to maintain safety through regular checks. An image shows firemen demonstrating fire safety techniques to attentive students, enhancing community knowledge on fire hazards.
Housewives Too Can Help With Fire Prevention Program clipping.

The newspaper clipping from October 4, 1956, discusses the involvement of housewives in fire prevention programs, emphasizing the importance of creating awareness around fire safety at home. It highlights a fire safety event where firemen instruct a group of children on using a fire alarm box. The text encourages community participation in fire safety, urging babysitters to learn fire laws and households to maintain safety through regular checks. An image shows firemen demonstrating fire safety techniques to attentive students, enhancing community knowledge on fire hazards.

Name/Title

Housewives Too Can Help With Fire Prevention Program

Entry/Object ID

chs-015498

Description

The newspaper clipping from October 4, 1956, discusses the involvement of housewives in fire prevention programs, emphasizing the importance of creating awareness around fire safety at home. It highlights a fire safety event where firemen instruct a group of children on using a fire alarm box. The text encourages community participation in fire safety, urging babysitters to learn fire laws and households to maintain safety through regular checks. An image shows firemen demonstrating fire safety techniques to attentive students, enhancing community knowledge on fire hazards.

Collection

John Tom Bell Collection

Category

Fire District, School: St. Columba School

Acquisition

Notes

12/12/2015 Gift from John Tom Bell.

Publication Details

Author

Terry Van Derhoof

Date Published

Oct 4, 1956

Transcription

Housewives Too Can Help With Fire Prevention Program HOUSEWIVES: The business men, firemen, Boy Scouts, and just about everyone in town is taking an active part in Fire Prevention Week. Have you stopped to think that fire prevention is also the duty of the housewife? House­wives are guilty of creating many fire hazards. Look over the-Home Fire Safety Check List. Do you keep your basement, storerooms, and attic free from rubbish, oily rags, old papers, mattresses, and broken furniture? Well, I got a guilty complex right away when I saw the Check List because I knew that down in my cellar were piles of old magazines and some empty soap boxes. I never thought of them as fire hazards but the inspection sheet made me see things differently. How many of you are guilty as am I? Perhaps you have a frayed iron cord which you have meant to get fixed. It wouldn't take ??? Baby Sitters Urged To Learn Fire Laws Be it an occupation or a love of children, baby sitting is a serious position and should be regarded as such. With Fire Prevention Week coming up, it is timely to review what a baby sitter should do in case of a fire emergency. The first duty is to get the children out of the danger of the fire area and then report the fire. Baby sitters should know the location of the nearest FIRE ALARM BOX and how to use it properly. If there is no alarm box, go to the nearest telephone. Know the proper way to report a fire: If you do not have the telephone number of the Fire Department, DIAL. THE OPERATOR. Be sure to give her the location of the fire. Know the location of all exits in the home and where first aid supplies are kept. Be sure that the parents leave written information as to their lo­cation, the telephone number, the telephone number of the police, and the family doctor. Have a knowledge of fire and its dangers and what to do such an emergency. Fire spreads rapidly and there should be no delay in leaving the building. Close all the doors around the fire area as you leave the building to prevent the flames from spreading. If you are trapped on a second floor, a good safe rope can be made from bed sheets. Fasten one end to the bed or other large piece of furniture ??? then lower the children ??? with an end of the ??? around the ??? are safely ??? ABOVE- FIREMEN Gus Kelder, John Lutjens and John I. Edwards see that the children at St. Columba's School in Chester know the proper use of a fire alarm box, Their interested group consists of the 7th and 8th grade students accompanied by Sister Ann Const??? ???ter explaining the ??? system, the firemen ??? to the students ???

Dimensions

Height

21.3 cm

Width

27.2 cm

Create Date

January 11, 2025

Update Date

April 6, 2025