FROM QUEER CAUSES
Many and strange are the causes of fires. A cockchafer crawled from an oil receptacle to a gas jet, where the creature’s oily body took fire, and falling, started a conflagration which cost £4OO. A flood burned a factory by causing a pile of iron filings to oxidise so rapidly as to become intensely heated, and so fire the woodwork. A stream from a fireman’s hose, curious as it may appear, started a second fire while putting out the first; the water penetrated an adjoining building containing quicklime. A running belt, which caught in a mass of greasy waste, fired the heap by friction, and demolished a large factory.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15073, 19 June 1942, Page 4
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112FROM QUEER CAUSES Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15073, 19 June 1942, Page 4
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