FIRE BOMBS
METHODS OF TREATMENT IDEAS IN NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIANEW SOUTH WALES ASKING FOR DETAILS. (By Association-Copyright) y (Received This Day. 12.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Minister of National Emergency Services, Mr Heffron, said he was cabling to New Zealand for derails of the methods used m the Do •minion for dealing with fire bombs. He was commenting on a messages New Zealand that there hepublic were adivsed to use buckets of water to deal with the bombs In Australia it is emphasised that only a fine spay of water should be used on a tire, bomb. An official of the Sydney Fire Brigade said that firemen who turned a, jet of water on magnesium bombs demonstrate that it was the wro n g thing to do had to wear coloured glass es because the resultant white as was too powerful for their eyes. A bomb could not be put into a buckunless it was picked up within ha minute of landing-otherwise it would explode, sending off dangerous fragments of metal. _____
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1942, Page 4
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172FIRE BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1942, Page 4
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