Guilford Young College workshop fire blamed on overheating car engine

A fire that wrecked a Catholic school’s trades coaching centre has been blamed on an “overheating motor compartment”.

The blaze at Guilford Younger College or university, which took hold on Monday afternoon in the northern Hobart suburb of Glenorchy, despatched a plume of black smoke into the air and sparked an alert from Tasmania Fireplace Services (TFS) for nearby citizens.

CCTV from the workshop, unveiled on Tuesday, displays smoke emanating from a motor vehicle in the workshop. Much less than 10 minutes later on, fire can be found less than the vehicle.

In a assertion on Tuesday, TFS explained it experienced identified the fireplace “started off from an overheating engine compartment in a vehicle that was getting saved in the developing”.

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“The engine compartment of a auto caught hearth a shorter time right after it was pushed into the workshop, and the fire speedily unfold to the rest of the creating, fuelled by fuel cylinders, vehicles, and workshop and setting up materials,” mentioned Regional Fireplace Investigator, Station Officer Adam Doran.

“Hearth crews contained the fireplace to the school’s trade teaching centre constructing and had been successful in stopping it from spreading to other sections of the school, with the additional aid of Hobart Fire Brigade’s new aerial firefighting system.”