Show dry ice extinguishes silo fire after experts give up STANLEY KANS it took a lit tie time but robert E lester dis covered how to put out the fire in his silo he used dry ice don a tenant on lester s farm saw smoke coming from a silo holding 60 tons of silage he tie telephoned lester in kansas city 30 miles away lester in turn sought advice from a county agent the kansas kansa S city fire department and the kansas state college on how to snuff out the slow fire without spoiling the silage all professed inexperience in fight ing fl fires res in silos lester finally called a chemical coir corr pany the company loaded 40 cakes of dry ice each weighing 50 pounds and rushed them to the silo the ice was dropped I 1 in n from the top the fire went out the chemical firm said there would be no charge for the ice glad to know it would do the job a corn coin pany official said |