EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 259 - CREATING A FIRE PREVENTION BOARD

To investigate the origin and cause of fires;

(b) To study ways and means of preventing fires;

(c) To study suitable fire-fighting plans and facilities;

(d) To arouse the inhabitants of the Philippines to the necessity of combating and preventing fires by appealing to their sense of individual responsibility through the newspapers, radio, posters, or other means of dissemination;

( e ) To cooperate with the authorities concerned in the adoption of such measures as may be necessary for the effective supervision and regulation of the manufacture, distribution, storage, and possession of petroleum, gas, acetylene dynamite, gunpowder, explosives, blasting supplies, or ingredients thereof, and other highly combustible matter;

( f ) To cause the inspection of factory buildings and other structures which are considered fire hazards and recommend to the proper authorities their removal or their remodelling so as to provide sufficient protection against fire;

(g) To encourage the observance in. every municipality and chartered city of Fire Prevention Week proclaimed in Proclamation No. 248, dated January 20, 1938; and

(h) To submit from time to time to the President of the Philippines its recommendations on fire fighting and prevention.

The General Chairman may also call the group chairmen to a meeting from time to time.

The groups shall meet at the call of their respective chairmen.

All officers and employees of the different Departments, bureaus, offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the National Government and those of the provinces, cities, municipalities and other political subdivisions are hereby enjoined to cooperate with the Board in the performance of its functions and, with the approval of the corresponding Head of Department, shall, when necessary, render such service as the Board may assign to them.

Done in the City of Manila , this 30th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines , the fourth.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA

Executive Secretary