FIRES THAT PUT THEMSELVES OUT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 286, 22 June 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

FIRES THAT PUT THEMSELVES OUT.

Thero are numerous Instances on record in which a fire has been the moans of extinguishing itself. These examples of spontaneous ineombu c tion are not infrequent, even apart from thoss cases in which it occurs through the agency of automatic sprinklers. A fire in a church in Boston,, U.S.A., caused by "spontaneous ignition" in » <tore-room, melted the lead waterpipes, and tho water issuing from them extinguished the fire. Not very long ago some waste left lrpon the top of a steaf pump at W«,tcrtown, New York, blazed from "spontaneous Ignition," and this in turn set fire to the lagging round the steam cylinders and the food p'pe, where it melted the soldered attachments of a continuous automatic oiler. The steam from tho feed-pipe was discharged through the small tubes leading to tho oiler, and extinguished the fire.