Southern View: June 21, 2016
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FLAME FILES<br />
GUTTED: A garage fire on Linwood Ave started when hot ash was put in a bin.<br />
Clean the lint filter in<br />
your clothes dryer<br />
• By Mark Thomas – Fire<br />
Risk Management Officer<br />
Tuesday [Edition <strong>June</strong> datE] <strong>21</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
TWO PROPERTY fires,<br />
with all the drama and<br />
heartache they entail,<br />
occurred this week – the<br />
result of very topical causes<br />
reflecting the start of<br />
winter.<br />
In the early hours of<br />
last Sunday, a household<br />
in Parklands was alerted<br />
by smoke alarms to the<br />
fact the house was on<br />
fire.<br />
That there were operating<br />
smoke detectors saved<br />
a possible tragedy, but<br />
the cause may have been<br />
avoidable.<br />
The origin of the fire<br />
was traced to a clothes<br />
dryer that had been started<br />
before the occupants went<br />
to bed.<br />
There’s two points here.<br />
Firstly, it isn’t known<br />
whether the lint filter had<br />
been cleared recently.<br />
If it hadn’t, and this<br />
should be done every<br />
time the drier is used, it is<br />
possible the contents just<br />
got hotter and hotter to<br />
ignition temperature.<br />
Secondly, the use of<br />
these things should probably<br />
be restricted to when<br />
you’re at home, up and<br />
alert. Then you can deal<br />
with problems immediately<br />
as they occur.<br />
The other fire was a classic<br />
winter event, where fire<br />
ash was left against the side<br />
of a garage in Linwood on<br />
Tuesday. Ash is an excellent<br />
insulator. Hot embers<br />
encased in the ash, inside a<br />
bucket, will not cool down<br />
for days.<br />
In this case, heat transferred<br />
through the ash, the<br />
side of the bucket and the<br />
iron cladding of the garage,<br />
igniting the wooden<br />
framing.<br />
It is recommended that<br />
five days is the minimum<br />
time to expect ash to completely<br />
cool.<br />
That’s five days you must<br />
keep the ash and bucket<br />
outside and well away from<br />
anything combustible.<br />
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