["Telegrams", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 28 January 1911, page 4]
Koombana Again On Fire
Perth, January 23.
At 11 o'clock on Saturday night an alarm of fire was given on board the s.s. Koombana. Smoke was noticed issuing from ventilators of Nos. 2 and 3 holds, and investigations showed about four or five tons of fodder on fire. On Sunday morning the fire was pronounced to be extinguished, and operations were then commenced to pump the holds out. No damage was done to the ship itself. Withing a few moments after the alarm was given the Fremantle fire brigade and ships company were all engaged in the work of extinguishing the fire. The fire is attributed to spontaneous combustion.
