Fire Prevention Week

Oct 6-12 is Fire Prevention Week. 

Fire Prevention

When a residential or business fire occurs it is not only firemen that get involved, but insurance people and damage inspectors.

My daughter is a journeyman carpenter and at a renovation company she once worked for she would inspect damage and make reports on what needed to be done and the company would run the cost to make renovations or repairs.

When he retired from the RCMP after 10 years of service, my father-in-law Al Nolin became an insurance adjuster, investigating fire and fire-related losses. 

The Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association would hold meetings with representatives of the insurance companies to discuss insurance legislation and prevention measures.

Some of the proceedings of a Fire Insurance Company will give a list of claims..

Beaver and Toronto Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Mar 1871

Also reports of local fire departments may have a list of fires and alarms, like this with date, place, owner and cause...

Boston Fire Department - Annual Report 1884 pg.11

 Many people and companies have suffered losses due to forest and bush fires.

Forest fires relief fund1886, Victoria Australia, pg.13

When I lived in Quebec our town had a "Centre de Dépannage" (or help center) where people could donate clothes and household items for victims of fire, flood etc. People and companies near and far feel compelled to help or donate when fire disasters strike.  

These days after a disastrous fire a go-fund-me page might be set up. Regardless of how it's done, a cry for help would go out for donations large and small to a fire relief fund. 

Northern Ontario Fire of 1911 Relief Fund Subscriptions

Check your local library for fire department and relief fund reports, and local insurance company reports of claims. There may also be directories of insurance companies.

Join in Fire Prevention Week activities in your community. 

Relevant Links

Insurance Society and Firemen’s Review

Proceedings of the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association in Montreal and Toronto

Proceedings of the Fire Marshals' Association of North America

Proceedings at the second annual meeting of the Beaver and Toronto Mutual Fire Insurance Company, held March 21-23, 1871 - claims

Boston Fire Department, Annual Reports

Report of the Fire Department of the City of New York

Forest fires in Canada, 1914-15-16

Report of the Northern Ontario Fire Relief Committee : re administration of funds subscribed for relief of sufferers in fire in Northern Ontario July 1911

The Weekly Underwriter, NY

National Fire Prevention Association USA

The Insurance Directory And Year Book 1939 London

American underwriter's manual and insurance directory for 1862-3

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