Fire Fighters: Unsafe Electric Cords Being Sold

stations. Attention for 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 a 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. 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 V. Rathbun.

Now that was 20 minutes ago and the fire now has been extinguished. As the firemen pick up to roll back the quarters, Chief Cody hails his collar. Collins! What's that you have in your hand?

The cause of this fire chief, Cody thought you'd want to see it. Great blest ring blazes, again! Again? Another one of those cheap electrical cords. Yes, sir. Let's see it. 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-grade billows of smoke. Colin's at the same story all over town. What's that, sir? fires and homes caused by the same kind of electrical cord.