CHILDREN BURNED
House Fire In Sydney
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, May 16. Doctors are fighting to save the lives of two children who were enveloped in blazing petrol at a home in the outer Sydney suburb of Heathcote yesterday. Three other members of a family of 17 living in the house were burned as they tried to beat out the flames around the screaming children with their bare hands. The two children were critically burned after a bottle of petrol accidentally tipped on to a kerosene lamp. They are: Charles Woods, aged two, and Dorothy Woods, aged seven. Their invalid war veteran father, Robert Leslie Woods, and his two eldest daughters ■were burned when they tried to smother the flames.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610517.2.184
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 18
Word count
Tapeke kupu
120CHILDREN BURNED Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 18
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in