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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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