New extinguishers

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34132, 20 April 1976, Page 2

New extinguishers

tK.t. Press A notation) WELLINGTON, April 19. Police cars are being fitted with larger fire extinguishers although the police do not intend to become f requent firefighters. Last week it was reported that New South Wales policemen thought the extinguishers in their ca~s were too small, and a case was quoted in which two country policemen had to watch two persons in a crashed vehicle burn to death because the extinguishers in their police car was exhausted. The New Zealand police recently tested extinguishers and decided on a size which a fire protection expert describes as “quite good." Police vehicles in New Zealand are being equipped

with 2.3 kg (51b) dry-powder extinguishers, replacing the o.9kg (21b) units previously fitted.

“The idea of moving from 21b to 51b is pretty good” a fire protection expert said, "though it’s not going to put out a car fire if it’s beyond the scope of a hand extinguisher. If the whole car is going, no hand extinguisher will do it.” ’The police do not see Landlocked Chile and Peru are to begin a series of talks at Lima on landlocked Bolivia’s demand for a corridor to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost when the three countries went to war nearly 100 years ago. The talks centre on a 1929 treaty in which Chile, victor of the war, agreed not to cede any territory it took from Peru without Peru’s permission. — Lima.

themselves as links in the fire-fighting chain. Their viewpoint is their vehicles are fitted with extinguishers "for much the same reason as a private motorist or to assist other vehicle users in the same position.”