OUTBREAK OF FIRE
Electric Arc Welding Lamp
Defective wiring is believed to have been the cause of an outbreak of tire in the resistance of an electric arc welding lamp located on the ground floor of a two-story brick building in Upper Taranaki Street, occupied by Crawley, Ridley and Co., Ltd., motorbody builders, shortly before 10 o’clocklast night. The damage was confined to the lamp and its equipment. A dense pall of white smoke issuing from the building led a young man, who was working nearby, to communicate with the central tire station, but the firemen’s task was not a difficult one, as there was little chance of the outbreak spreading. Before closing the building for the night at 8.15, a member of the staff noticed that the resistance of the welding apparatus was smouldering, and he used an extinguisher on it. Believing that he had quelled the outbreak he left the building, only to be called from his home again after the alarm had been given.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 10
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167OUTBREAK OF FIRE Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 10
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