Fire Fighters: Tracking Down Unsafe Electric Cords

stations. Attention! All districts,ifiable on fire! That's it! Let's roll! Let's go! Firefighters! The true-to-life story of our unsung heroes who stand ready to ride by day or night against our most murderous enemy, the demon of fire!

In just a minute we'll roll to the scene of a fire in a home on the south side. Tim Collins' rookie fireman is there, making a report to Chief Cody on the cause of the fire, where, which has already been extinguished. We're a little late, but before we report to the scene, there's time for this message. Go, firefighters! Let's go to the south side,

where on the quiet back street there has been a sudden outbreak of excitement, a moment of terror, when fire broke out in the kitchen of Mrs. Horace B. Rathbun. Now that was 20 minutes ago, and the fire now has been extinguished. As the firemen pick up to roll back to quarters, Cody hails him. Collins, what's that you have in your hand? The cause of this fire

chief, Cody, thought you'd want to see it. Great, blustering blazes, again. Again? Another one of those cheap electrical cords. Yes sir. Let's see it. Now look at that connection chief or what you can see that's left of it. Yeah, this cheap cord never passed any laboratory test Collins. Mrs. Rathlin says it was brand new yet

you can see where that connection caused a short circuit, burned off all that that flims the insulation through sparks all over the kitchen. And, well, this morning more than the toast was burned for breakfast, great billows of smoke.

Collins, it's the same story all over town. What's that, sir? Fires and homes caused by the same kind of electrical cord. It's a defective cord. Some fellow was selling the housewife. One of those door-to-door sales?