CHAPTER V PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE INTRODUCTORY LESSON PLAN Study the fire risk in your school building. a. What are some of the things which every pupil should do to help prevent fires? b. Find the possible sources of fire danger in the building, and suggest means of removing them: 1. Is the cellar kept free of rubbish and inflammable materials? 2. Are the furnaces and pipes covered with asbestos? 3. Are the stairways open to draft from cellar to roof, or enclosed by walls and doors? 4. Do all doors in the building open outward? c. Plan a fire drill that will get all of the people out of the building, in an orderly way, in three minutes. d. Where would you place fire extinguishers? hose? fire buckets? e. How often would you have these articles inspected? f. In case of fire, delegate certain individuals to send in an alarm at the nearest fire alarm box. State just what these persons must do in order to send in the alarm. 1. WHY WE ARE ALL INTERESTED IN FIRES No one can help feeling a thrill of excitement as with screaming sirens, a fire truck clatters noisily past, with rubber-coated men clinging to its sides at perilous angles. But we have much more than a spectacular interest when this happens, for every time the fire apparatus answers an alarm-whether false or not the community taxpayers must dig down into their pockets and foot the bill. Every one of us pays either directly or indirectly part of our enormous yearly bill for fires. Some of us pay it directly in the form of insurance premiums; others pay it indirectly as rent for our homes or as part of the cost of articles which we buy from those who rent or own places of business. The bill that |