FIRE AT CEMENT WORKS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 12

FIRE AT CEMENT WORKS

MAN BURNT IN SILO

(From Our Own Correspondent.) NELSON, MarchiH Wearing a compressed air, f he tamed breathing apparatus, “ Nelson Fire Board’s Chief Fire Owe (Mr J. H. Bax) yesterday climbed . feet down a ladder into a sniouw . ing silo at the Golden Bay CeHie Company’s works at Tarakohe to e tinguish a fire which had broken o there in the early hours of the mor While working on the floor of of the silos during the afternoon, . Bax was caught in a fall of cenl p j and was scorched about the arms a face. He made three descents silo, which was filled with smoke a cement-dust, first to locate the seal the fire, and then to play water on the smouldering timbers. , . After the main outbreak had De brought under control, Mr Bax carded the breathing apparatus a• was lowered into another smoulder*"» silo in a bosun’s chair to chip cem off the floor, and so expose timbers. Called at Tarakohe at 3 a.m. day, the Takaka Fire Brigade was • the scene of the fire for nearly p-x hours until the arrival of Mr & with the breathing apparatus. teer brigadesmen succeeded ing the spread of the outbreak but cause of smoke and choking ceme dust they could not break through the base of the fire. . The fire is not expected to inter «rf with production at the Golden *7 Company’s works.