灭火器
“最好的是最便宜的”这句古老的格言最适合用在消防设备上。这是包括一切有关设备,一流的风格,一个消防公司,从最先进的蒸汽消防车到最小和最不重要的工具,需要完善的工作设备和消防员。使用简陋的工具是不可能做好工作的,而世界上组织最好的消防队员团体也不能指望保护他们邻居的财产,除非他们被提供了工作所需的必要设备。我们经常读到这样的报道:由于廉价的软管爆裂,发动机着火而完全瘫痪,或者由于廉价购买的某些设备出现故障。这种“廉价”的考虑经常被那些负责购买消防设备的人给予不适当和致命的重量,官员们为了他们所代表的社区的利益而不择手段地获得廉价的经济声誉,他们倾向于“在龙头处节约,在龙头处浪费”,用廉价的设备来装备他们的消防部门,而不是耐用的、最受认可的设备。没有什么比这更短视的了,也没有什么比这对社会利益的强加更致命的了。在许多情况下,人们指责消防队员在火灾时没有抢救更多的财产,而当人们知道这些事实时,就会发现一些有经济倾向的采购委员会为他们提供了不足的电器,或者完全忽视了为最需要的那些提供。市民很容易认为,如果消防队员配备了发动机,就不需要再做什么,以使他们能够扑灭任何可能发生的火灾。一台发动机,蒸汽或手,就其本身而言已经够好的了,但要使它更有效率,还需要其他成千上万的东西。 Men who have actual experience us Firemen, and have made themselves familiar with the best modes of extinguishing fires, are the only persons who should be entrusted with the important duty of equipping a fire company with its apparatus. Without good fire apparatus and efficient fire companies, no city or village is safe. A conflagration is liable to overwhelm them at a moment’s notice, and may result from an insignificant blaze, which, with proper apparatus at hand, might have been extinguished without anyany damage. The past few years have furnished numerous illustrations of this fact It is short sighted penuriosness, miscalled economy, which neglects providing the most effectual means of protection against fire, or fails to equip its fire department thoroughly, or palms off upon it cheap material which cannot be relied upon for an hour's work. “The best is always the cheapest” in the long run, and a surplus is to be preferred to a scant supply ol hie extinguishing appliances.
“最好的是最便宜的”这句古老的格言最适合用在消防设备上。这是包括一切有关设备,一流的风格,一个消防公司,从最先进的蒸汽消防车到最小和最不重要的工具,需要完善的工作设备和消防员。使用简陋的工具是不可能做好工作的,而世界上组织最好的消防队员团体也不能指望保护他们邻居的财产,除非他们被提供了工作所需的必要设备。我们经常读到这样的报道:由于廉价的软管爆裂,发动机着火而完全瘫痪,或者由于廉价购买的某些设备出现故障。这种“廉价”的考虑经常被那些负责购买消防设备的人给予不适当和致命的重量,官员们为了他们所代表的社区的利益而不择手段地获得廉价的经济声誉,他们倾向于“在龙头处节约,在龙头处浪费”,用廉价的设备来装备他们的消防部门,而不是耐用的、最受认可的设备。没有什么比这更短视的了,也没有什么比这对社会利益的强加更致命的了。在许多情况下,人们指责消防队员在火灾时没有抢救更多的财产,而当人们知道这些事实时,就会发现一些有经济倾向的采购委员会为他们提供了不足的电器,或者完全忽视了为最需要的那些提供。市民很容易认为,如果消防队员配备了发动机,就不需要再做什么,以使他们能够扑灭任何可能发生的火灾。一台发动机,蒸汽或手,就其本身而言已经够好的了,但要使它更有效率,还需要其他成千上万的东西。 Men who have actual experience us Firemen, and have made themselves familiar with the best modes of extinguishing fires, are the only persons who should be entrusted with the important duty of equipping a fire company with its apparatus. Without good fire apparatus and efficient fire companies, no city or village is safe. A conflagration is liable to overwhelm them at a moment’s notice, and may result from an insignificant blaze, which, with proper apparatus at hand, might have been extinguished without anyany damage. The past few years have furnished numerous illustrations of this fact It is short sighted penuriosness, miscalled economy, which neglects providing the most effectual means of protection against fire, or fails to equip its fire department thoroughly, or palms off upon it cheap material which cannot be relied upon for an hour's work. “The best is always the cheapest” in the long run, and a surplus is to be preferred to a scant supply ol hie extinguishing appliances.