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FIRE AND FIRE EXTINCTION

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

FIRE AND FIRE EXTINCTION . Fire is considered in this See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article, primarily, from the point of view of the See also:

PROTECTION

protection against fire that can be accorded by preventive See also:

MEASURES

measures and by the organization of fire extinguishing establishments. See also:

HISTORY

History is full of accounts of devastation caused by fires in towns and cities of nearly every See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the civilized See also:

WORLD

world.

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