NEARBY HOUSES THREATENED
GRASS FIRE AT NORTH beach . ' A grass fire which started in a ' vacant section in Tonks street, North Beach, yesterday - afternoon, would have destroyed Atjkagt twq and probably four housMs/^Bt’.for '■ the work of local v ■ ’ ;The flames spread Rapidly, setting light to a six-foot paling‘fehce, which was only six feet from a house occupied by Mr Ellis. . Men with shovels, sacks, aqd buckets of water foiight hard to keep the flames back. More than 40 feet Cf the fence was either burned or mocked down.
The fire then spread in a northerly direction. Control was gained only in time to save the destruction of a
small house on the northern side of the section.
The New Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade was called, but, as its ‘members were at work, arrived with three men after the fire was put out.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22506, 14 September 1938, Page 7
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