TWO FIRE CALLS
Overheated Electric Motors
Twice yesterday tlie Wellington Fire Brigade wms called to suppress incipient fires in freezing apparatus. In both cases the electric motors in the plants had become overheated, causing smoke and smell, but the electric current was turned off before -an actual outbreak of fire occurred. The accident is not novel and sometimes occurs on holidays when the refrigerators are left unattended and when the automatic apparatus for regulating fails. However, as the motors are usually encased in a steel cabinet the danger of fire is comparatively small. At 6.45 a.m. the brigade was called to a confectionery shop in the Grand Opera House building, occupied by Mr. Max Greenfield, where a refrigerator was in use, and at 10.26 a.m. to the shop of Mr. Hugh Douglas, 47 Tasman Street, where the motor that gave trouble was attached to a freezing chamber.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 8
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147TWO FIRE CALLS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 8
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