FIRE SPRINKLER AVERTS BLAZE
An automatic fire sprinkler which spread a curtain of water over the paint department of the Halifax Chair Seat Company at Millersburg, Saturday evening, speedily quenched flames which started from an overheated pulley and electric motor.
It is apparent that a motor used in the paint department had been left running when the plant closed at noon. Becoming overheated in the evening, a belt and pulley started to burn. Richard Williamson, night watchman at the Brubaker Reamer Company, saw the dense smoke and turned in a fire alarm.
Hundreds of people who had gathered on the square to hear the band concert followed the Millersburg Fire Department to the scene. The services of the truck were not needed however, because of the effectiveness of the sprinkler.
Only slight damage was done to the paint room because of its construction of steel and concrete, and brick. Fire several years ago destroyed the plant of the same company, and was later rebuilt along fireproof lines.
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From the Elizabethville Echo, 26 June 1930, via Newspapers.com.
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