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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>June</strong> 6 <strong>2017</strong> 9<br />
Your Local Views<br />
FLAME FILES<br />
Homestead burns down<br />
• By Mark Thomas –<br />
specialist fire investigator<br />
FIRES BEING attended<br />
at the moment are<br />
completely in keeping<br />
with this time of year.<br />
The old “metre heater”<br />
rule was broken in St<br />
Albans St a few weeks ago<br />
where clothing drying<br />
against a wall heater began<br />
to smoulder.<br />
As the time was 5.40am,<br />
the household was in bed<br />
asleep but were alerted by a<br />
working smoke alarm.<br />
Everybody got out and<br />
the house wasn’t badly fire<br />
affected.<br />
You can’t have too many<br />
smoke alarms.<br />
Without them, relatively<br />
minor events like this one<br />
can turn into a complete<br />
disaster.<br />
Some people coming<br />
home in Hoon Hay last<br />
week found their house<br />
completely full of smoke.<br />
An ash bucket had been<br />
smoking away, probably<br />
all day.<br />
Ash can remain hot for<br />
up to five days.<br />
GONE: The old wooden home was destroyed in the<br />
fire last week.<br />
PHOTO: CAITLIN MILES <br />
Fire ash needs to be<br />
completely removed from<br />
the house and preferably<br />
scattered in an area that<br />
can’t ignite.<br />
Too many washhouses<br />
and wood sheds have been<br />
lost from this seemingly<br />
unlikely source of fire ignition.<br />
I like grand old<br />
houses. Unfortunately, one<br />
in Kaituna Valley, Banks<br />
Peninsula, burnt down last<br />
week.<br />
Thankfully, the wheelchair-bound<br />
owner was<br />
taken outside early on and<br />
no injury resulted.<br />
But the house is gone.<br />
Rural homes are often<br />
long distances from fire<br />
stations.<br />
What can be a minor<br />
event in town, where the<br />
fire crews are only minutes<br />
away, can be catastrophic<br />
in the country<br />
half an hour from the<br />
closest station.<br />
That’s why we<br />
recommend home<br />
sprinklers, particularly in<br />
rural areas.<br />
They might just save an<br />
irreplaceable homestead.<br />
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