Blast wrecks part of flat
A blocked pressure relief outlet may have been the reason a hot water cylinder exploded in a small bedsitter flat in Hereford Street yesterday. The Fire Service, the Municipal Electricity Department, and Christchurch City Council building and planning inspectors are still investigating the cause of the incident. The explosion demolished one corner of the singleroom back-section flat, as well as moving walls and spraying glass and twisted metal in all directions. The blast broke windows in a neighbouring block of flats as well. No-one was hurt. A divisional Fire Service officer, Mr David Stickings, said the bed-sitter was unoccupied. The cylinder had been installed for a week, under a sink. “Had anybody been in the kitchen they would have been seriously injured, if not killed,” be said. A neighbour said he felt his concrete-block flat rock when the cylinder exploded about 25m away. “It was like a bomb going off,” he said.
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Press, 13 March 1985, Page 1
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