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Where There's Smoke
Therms Danger!
By Paul W. Kearney
{The following article is reprinted from The Readers Digest, August, 1953)
In the famous Cleveland Clinic fire 24 years ago there was little flame above the basement, yet 125 victims died trom smoke poisoning. In the Hotel LaSalle catastrophe in Chicago in 1946 all 61 deaths were due to smoke. In the Boston Cocoanut Grove night-club episode in- 1942 there were few externa] burns, and only one broken bone, among the 492 \ictims. They were neither burned nor trampled to death: they were gassed. /
Such a rectital could continue indefinitely. It can also be summud up by the conclusion of a National Fire Protection Association study a few years ago: 74 per cent of all dwelling-fire victims die upstairs from down-stairs fires—asphyxiated by toxic gases.
The truth here is as vital to the householder as to the fire fighter: the burning of clothing and house furnishings — silk, wool, cotton, rayon, fur, leather, plastics, rubber, insulation, even newspapers— produces perhaps a dozen different toxic gases. Best known is carbon monoxide, which is particularly to be feared in attics, basements and closets, where limited air supply causes incomplete combustion.
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