Blaze scare.A FIRE in a carding machine carding machine Machine for carding textile fibres. In the 18th century, hand carding was laborious and constituted a bottleneck in the newly mechanized production of textiles. sparked a major blaze scare at a Mirfield mill. Firefighters were called to the John Cotton mill on Huddersfield Road in Mirfield after the fire spread from one machine to another and then into the building's dust extraction system. Firefighters from Mirfield, Dewsbury and Brighouse were first called at 8.10pm and by 11.30pm five engines were there along with an aerial platform An aerial platform may refer either to a:
A West Yorkshire West Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county largely embraced the Leeds conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Kirklees. fire spokesman said: "The sprinkler system had activated activated a state of being more than usually active. In biological systems this is usually brought about by chemical or electrical means. Commonly said of pharmaceutical and chemical products. and knocked the fire back, but didn't put it out." The main Hudders field Road was closed for a while. |
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