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Massage Oil Causes Spontaneous Combustion
Churchtown, Mullion at 14/05/2022 09:37
Fire appliances from Helston and Falmouth attended a call to a building which was filling with smoke. Firefighters entered the building wearing two breathing apparatus and one carbon dioxide extinguisher and a thermal imaging camera. Firefighters located a fire in towels which had been washed, put through a tumble dryer and then placed in a bag. A fire investigation then identified that the bag of towels had spontaneously combusted from the self heating of massage oil residue on the towels. For more information check the link attached.
There are no more details available on this incident.
Date Posted: 14/05/2022