Fire Fighters: Tracking Down Unsafe Electric Cords

stations. Attention, all districts,ifiable on fire. That's it. Let's hear fighters. 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 report to Chief

Cody on the cause of the fire, 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's been a sudden outbreak of excitement, a moment of terror, when fire broke out in the kitchen

and 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, Chief 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, Colin. Mrs. Rathlin says it was brand new. Yet you can see where that connection caused a short circuit, burned off all that flimsy 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.