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Reports of 119 fires involving liquid fuel gas, during 1951, have been analysed and the results compared with a similar analysis for the four previous years. This note supplements the information available in F.S.Notes No.103/1950 and No.131/1951 concerning fires involving liquid fuel gas apparatus attended by the N.F.S. and Fire Brigades in the United Kingdom. There were 361 incidents in the five years 1947-1951; 270 fires in which the liquid fuel gas was the material first ignited and 91 fires where the jets of the gas apparatus ignited materials other than the fuel gas.