Protection from Fire and Thieves, EtcLongmans&Company, 1875 - 162 ページ |
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135 ページ - The number of calls for chimneys has been 4,325. Of these, 1,420 proved to be false alarms, and 2,905 were for chimneys on fire. In these cases there was no attendance of engines, but only of firemen with hand-pumps. The...
134 ページ - ... they do not include trifling damages by fires which were not sufficiently important to require the attendance of firemen ; neither do they include the ordinary calls for chimneys on fire, which are separately accounted for further on. "The fires of 1878, compared with...
109 ページ - On the first discovery of a fire, it is of the utmost consequence to shut, and keep shut, all doors, windows, or other openings. It may often be observed after a house has been on fire, that one floor is comparatively untouched, while those above and below are nearly burned out. This arises from the doors on that particular floor having been kept shut, and the draught directed elsewhere.
114 ページ - In a narrow street or court assistance may be given from the windows of the opposite house, particularly by a ladder placed across the street from window to window. 4. When no other means present themselves, the bystanders had better collect bedding at hand in case the inmates throw themselves from the windows : a blanket or carpet held stretched out by several persons will serve the purpose. The society's fire escape conductors carry jumping sheets with them for use upon emergency.
115 ページ - A silk handkerchief, worsted stockings, or other flannel substance, wetted and drawn over the face, permits free breathing, and excludes to a great extent the smoke from the lungs. A wet sponge is alike efficacious.
116 ページ - Upon discovering yourself on fire reflect that your greatest danger arises from draught to the flames, and from their rising upwards. Throw yourself on the ground, and roll over on the flame, if possible, on the rug or loose drugget, which drag under you ; the...
115 ページ - Hill. 2. Inmates at the first alarm should endeavour calmly to reflect what means of escape there are in the house. If in bed at the time, wrap themselves in a blanket or bedside carpet ; open neither windows nor doors more than necessary; shut every door after them (this is most important to observe).
107 ページ - Keep matches in metal boxes, and out of the reach of children ; wax matches are particularly dangerous, and should be kept out of the way of rats and mice...
116 ページ - Do not give vent to the fire by breaking into the house unnecessarily from without, or, if an inmate, by opening doors or windows. Make a point of shutting every door after you as you go through the house. For this purpose doors enclosing the staircase are very useful.
11 ページ - ... lock should, in all cases, possess strength, and be well adapted, especially in the larger ones, to resist all attempts to force them open ; and, both in the larger and the smaller kinds, the works should not be susceptible of injury or derangement from attempts with picklocks or false keys.