What Constitutes a Fire and a Fire Alarm · Greer Heritage Museum collection

Title: What Constitutes a Fire and a Fire Alarm
Accession Number: 2025.32.1.2.4
Accession Date: 9 February 2026
Accession Creator: Emma Lilyea
Description: "National Board of Fire Underwriters (A National Organization of Capital Stock Fire Insurance Companies Established in 1866) - Committee on Fire Prevention and Engineering Standards - 85 John Street, New York 7, N.Y."
"Bulletin No. 263"
Dated February 20, 1948
Titled "What Constitutes a Fire and a Fire Alarm"
In order to keep clarifying and accurate fire records, the National Board uses their annual questionnaire, filled out by Fire Chiefs, to develop a definition of a fire and a fire alarm: "From the viewpoint of keeping fire records, a fire alarm is any emergency notification which causes one or more pieces of apparatus to respond" and "the definition of a fire follows closely the one already given for a fire alarm. An alarm is an emergency notification which causes apparatus to make a run, and a fire is any run made for the purpose of extinguishing an unfriendly fire regardless of whether there was any need for the firemen or apparatus upon arrival."
Creator: National Board of Fire Underwriters
Date: 20 February 1948
Format: Paper
Storage Location: Fire Records Alarms 1
Relation: Broughton Colvin Collection