Show fig T i Sit Tives on the scene to combat a fire which broke SALT LAKE FIRE Department equipment ar- out in the new Merrill Engineering Building Fire was traced to electrical short circuit Electric Short Starts Fire In U Engineering Building By MARGIE BURGON Chronicle Staff Writer A short in electrical wiring caused an outburst of fire in the new electrical engineering department now under construction in the Merrill Building Friday PAINTERS who were working In the basement of the building used two-by-fours to hold up cop per piping on the and the pressure was just enough to touch off a short in the electrical The pipes which contained ox-I exploded and the oxygen was released in the Chief Grant R. Walker of the Salt Lake City Fire Department stated that fresh paint was against the plastic coated The plastic coating was hot enough that it opened up the main oxygen line when the pipe burst Part of the transfers for the electrical engineering laboratory were |