纽约火灾的七个原因
纽约市的消防专员F. J. Lantry已将以下原因作为大都市的主要原因：（i）小鼠和比赛，正如楼层被拆除和小鼠巢穴中发现的比赛所示。（2）由吸烟者粗心造成的遮阳伞，从窗户中扔燃烧的香烟或雪茄。这些小屋在遮阳篷上并开始火灾。（3）在蔑视法律方面，处理垃圾的疏忽，在商业建筑和房屋中积累了积累的垃圾。（4）Oldfashioned Shafts（电梯和哑浴），用作烟道，火焰匆匆冲击，因为当普通的烟囱提供炉子和炉子的草稿。现代建筑法有点减少这种危险;但通过粗心粗心，依法下令轴的轴的金属门。保持关闭，留下灾难性的结果。（5）蕾丝窗帘，吹燃气或赤裸裸的灯光或赤裸裸的灯，着火，火焰沿着窗帘杆跑，向周围的木工射击，一般都非常干燥，以及严重的火灾结果。去年在曼哈顿的自治市镇，里士满和布朗克斯，216次火灾源于这个原因。 (6) Matches caused 887 fires, and with a child attachment, 288 more—a total of 1,175. In the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens 732 fires arose from matches igniting awnings, bed clothing, rubbish, straw, etc. (7) Throwing away lighted cigars and cigarette stubs (the cigarette being the more dangerous of the two because a cigar-end soon burns out, whereas a cigarette burns on to the end) is another fruitful source of danger. Yet nothing is easier than to stamp out end or stub when thrown away. For all these causes of fire caution intelligently applied and impressed on employer and employed men, women and children, is the great remedy.
W. H. Riker, William Hendershott and Edward S. Smith are respectively chief, first and second assistant chief of the Chatham. N. J.. firedepartment.
