教堂安装火灾探测系统
FROM THE EVIDENCE available, it would appear that the nation’s church leaders, heeding the grim lesson of last year’s record $14,000,000 fire loss in this category are taking positive action to halt this needless fire waste which the editors of FIRE ENGINEERING have termed “a calamity and a disgrace” (February, 1957). It is encouraging to report that according to tlie American District Telegraph Company, more than 16 churches, mostly in the northeast, where fire losses have been heaviest, have arranged for installation of automatic detection systems since the beginning of the year; negotiations now under way are expected to result in numerous additional installations.
教会官员更加了解教会的火灾危险和大量损失的可能性。Archbishop John O’Hara recently urged all churches in the Philadelphia archdiocese to evaluate and improve protection measures wherever possible.* A similar recommendation made by Archbishop Cushing of the Boston archdiocese led to installation of automatic detection systems in the Catherdral of The Holy Cross and several other churches in the area.
