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Monday, February 11, 1974
FIREMEN KEPT BUSY
With the return of dry weather, Fire Services personnel are
once more being kept busy fighting grass fires.
There were more than a dozen such fires today, when the humidity
level was under 50 per cent for most of the day. The majority were in the
New Territories and others occurred on Hong Kong Island.
A Fire Services spokesman appealed to the public to be extra
careful during the current very dry weather, particularly when throwing
matches or cigarette ends away. "Make sure they are properly out,"
he said, "or they can very easily start a blaze."
He said that 40 per cent of Hong Kong's fires are caused through
careless disposal of lighted matches and cigarette ends.
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