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Several times before in these columns we have commented upon the lack of adequate fire protection on any of th^ islands and the pressing need for something of the sort. This need was never more strongly (brought out than in the past fortnight. Tim two fires which have occurred at Peaks and Long Island point the moral as no newspaper article ever could. But for the fact that the wind was blowing from the east at the time of the I-ong Island blaze, it is certain that the whole upper end of the island would have gone, as it was it only stopped when it had burned right to the water's edge. A week later at Peaks Island a fire broke out that was every whit as dangerous, if not more so. as its predecessor, but it was stopped short and the damage done was comparatively slight. For at Peaks Island there was adequate means for combating the flames. At any island in the bay fire may break out at any time. At no island is there any sort of fire protection whatsoever. With even an ordinary favoring wind there would be no way of checking the advance of the blaze until it had burned itself out. Yet it seems as though the residents of the different islands will wait around until they themselves have suffered seriously before they will take any measures. It would be an easy matter and not a very extensive one to install some form of chemical engine on most of the islands. It is a matter on which you island and summer residents should co-operate at once and before the damage has been done. You have your choice between a fire like that on I»ng, spreading unchecked in its devastation, and one like that at Peaks, confined to the place where it started, although possessing as great possibilities of destruction as ihe other. It should not be difficult to make a selection.
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Portland Casco Bay Breeze
Portland, Maine, US
Thu, Jul 16, 1914
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