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DANGER
A CARELESS ACT CAN CAUSE A FIRE
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Fire losses exceed
quarter; billion
ollars
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e losses in Canada
have soared past the
QUAR ER -.o BILLION-
DOLLAR mark .',for a
single, year, a
According to . the latest
available figures, $254,-
266,623 worth of property
went up in flames in a -
single 12 -month period:
Ontario and Quebec top-
ped the list with nearly;$80
million in lases each.
The Agures, .compiled
for 1972, indicate an in-
crease of $18 million in
losses over the previous
year.
The largest single classi-
fication of fire loss was
residential, at $2;187,309.
Electrical `appliances
were blamed for more than
14,000 fires costing, more,
than .$44 omilll9n.
Car'hless smoking • caus-
d
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ed 1 more, than 22,000. fires
costing more than $18 mil -
,lion. This was the largest
single cause of fires, ,though
. the dollar value of the
damage was not at the top.
In 6'11 there were 78,895
fires .recorded in Canada
for the year in the survey.,
And `there's one' fire loss
• that no price"' can be put
on: human life.
Eight hundred and 'thirty
people died in these fires..
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