Bingham News | 1926-09-11 | Page 5 | Smother Fire with Sawdust

SMOTHER FIRE WITH SAWDUST l Sawdust is a .good fire extinguisher m of oil fires especially if the oil is in a deep container. Sawdust poured on burning oil floats and smothers the fire by shutting off the oxygen. Care must be taken that the sawdust does not become oil soaked and as hazardous hazard-ous as the oil itself. Two or three pounds of common soda mixed with a bucketful of sawdust renders it almost al-most entirely incombustible. When this mixture is used on a very hot fire the soda gives off a gas which aids in smothering the flames. Coarse sawdust should be ued and care needs to be taken that the dust does not form a cloud as fine sawdust or wood flour suspende din the air may explode ex-plode If limited. i