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Show TESTS MINIMIZE MONOXIDE AND EXPLOSIVE HAZARDS AT SCHOOL Engineer Recommends Early Venting Of Furnace Room And Repairing Of Heat Ducts . MOVING'to counter the report of two Salt Lake furnace experts ex-perts that the furnaces at the Roosevelt high school were leaking leak-ing carbon monoxide gas, and presented potent possibilities for a sudden explosion, the Duchesne Du-chesne county school board engaged en-gaged a safety engineer from the Geneva steel plant, who made a survey Sunday, and released the following information for publication: "AT the request of Mr. Mark-ham, Mark-ham, a series of tests to determine deter-mine possible monoxide content and explosion possibilities at the Roosevelt high school were run) by me personally at the high j school on Sunday, February 9, 1947, between the hours of 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. using calibrated instruments a carbon monoxide indicator, serial 535, mine safety safe-ty appliances, approved by the Bureau of Mines, and a mine safety appliance explosive meter. "Tests were made in the furnace fur-nace room with full normal fires in both furnaces, and one test was taken at the heat duct directly di-rectly over the furnace with the blower fan operating and with it shut off. "The maximum of 2000th of 1 per cent was found in the furnace fur-nace discharge hood with blower off; no explosive gas range was even measurable on the explosive explo-sive meter. "II is recommended that the furnace room be renlilaied and -that-the openings in the healing ducts be repaired and made air tight as soon as it can be arranged. ar-ranged. "To the best. of my knowledge there was no danger of monoxide gas or explosion present when the test, was made. A detailed report will be forwarded as soon as the figures can be calculated." Respectfully, Edgar Ellis, Safety Engineer MEANWHILE reports from several sources range from unofficial un-official declarations that the furnaces fur-naces are safe for operation to statements that the entire system is "shot," and in need of immediate im-mediate replacement. Precluding the possible fire hazard that the heating system presents, one well informed source in commenting on carbon monoxide gas and the explosive explo-sive factor stated, that danger from these two sources could be eliminated by keeping the blower blow-er in constant operation while school is in session. |
