SAWDUST BLANKETS
Sawdust as a lire extinguisher sounds absurd, but recent experimeins in -Boston proved it to be very successful in quenchin lt iin-s * in oil, and much superior to sand for tires in tanks of inflammable liquids. The experiments were conducted with tanks of burning- lacquer, though the same principles appear to apply largely, to tanks ot burniiiir oil. The floating sawdust forms a blanket that shuts off the air from the flames and, as sawdust itself catches lire only slowly and then dm;* not burn with a (lame, the sawdust blanket was completely successful in putting out the liros iv these tests. It made no difference whether the sawdust
was wet or dry.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLI, Issue 5967, 4 June 1913, Page 7
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