N. F. P. A. Meets at Atlantic City
In addressing the forty-second annual convention of the National Fire Protection Association held at Atlantic City, N. J., Robert S. Moulton, Boston, estimated the 1937 fire losses in the United States at $285,000,000 or $8,000,000 below the 1936 figures. The largest loss of the year was the burning of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst with a loss of almost $4,000,000. There were twentythree fires in which the loss was $250,000 or more. This is nineteen lower than for the same group in 1936
Chief Daniel B. Tierney, Arlington, Mass., President of the I. A. F. C., presented a paper on "The Future of the International Association of Fire Chiefs.” in which he pointed out the features of the educational program now being inaugurated.
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