UNDERGROUND FIRE
IN INDUSTRIAL SUBURB SYDNEY, Feb. 2. An underground fire is burning in t the heart of the industrial suburb of [ Botany, but although it is burning i underground, it is quite close to the surface, which is a dangerous area. Many years ago the area was a 'swamp, but as it became drained and built upon peat formed, and it is this
I peat, a field of about 20 acres, which ! is now on fire. Firemen have poured thousands of ■ gallons of water on It "nd the Botany ; council endeavoured to smother it I with sand, but it still burns on. SevI eral people, walking on what they . thought solid ground have suddenly > found their ankles sink into hot ashes i which have blistered their feet. ; a,iS APandswas p
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 10
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131UNDERGROUND FIRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 10
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