WATER CAUSES FIRES
While water is commonly used for fighting fires, strangely, it causes indirectly a large share of farm fires, Dr David J. Price, fire and explosion specialist of the United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, recently told a gathering of Perm-. sylvanian firemen. Fire caused by . water, Dr Price explained, is better . known under a more technical name ■ —spontaneous ignition. Bacterio- . logical and chemical action in-", fluenced by water is likely to cause • the ignition of hay, cattle feeds, fer- ■, tilisers, and other farm products when stored in barns, farm build- * ings, or any other kind of storage J place. The bureau's files contain ':■ many strange stories of such fires, ' he said. One record tells of an ice " house burning to the ground after . the sawdust had become wet from a heavy rain followed by a period 0 / warm weather.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23213, 10 June 1937, Page 13
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