Update On Do-It-Yourself Mortarless Brick

Update On Do-It-Yourself Mortarless Brick BUILDINGS Houses 23-5-35 I'm a volunteer for our local fire department and read with interest your reports on silo fires (Vol. 23, No. 2 and 3). I had my own experience with a silo fire in the first part of August. It involved a neighbor's 60-ft. high, 25-ft. dia. concrete stave silo that was filled with 2-year-old haylage. There was nothing in the silo to ignite a fire, but somehow one got started. We dropped a lot of water on it, but there was so much smoke and steam coming off the haylage that we couldn't be sure we had put the fire out for good. However, three days later there was no sign of a fire so apparently we got lucky and got enough water in the right spots. (Tom Flory, 9455 214th Rd., Nortonville, Kan. 66060 ph 913 886-3821)

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