N. Y. Lists Causes of Garage Fires
During 1929 there were 885 garage fires in New York City. The New York Fire Department has drawn up the following as the principal causes for fires in garages:
Other things that are listed by the Fire Department as contributing to the spread of fires in garages are failure to provide fire extinguishers and pails of sand for use when a fire occurs, lack of self-closing cans for the storage of oily waste, construction of garages adjacent to boiler rooms with open doors between, overloading of floors by bringing in loaded trucks and various violations of the Zoning Act, Code of Ordinances and the Building Code.
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