WOMAN'S LIFE SAVED BY PROMPT RESCUE
^ DUNEDIN, Nov. 1. Prompt action by five men saved a woman 's li-fe wlien a six-roomed. house eaught fire at Evansdale yesterday afternoon. The woman is Mrs. George Ireland, an invalid. She was asleep in a room adjoining a part of the house where the fire obtained the strongest hold, and lier two young children would have been unable to earry her out. The men were plasterers and brieklayers in the employ of a Dunedin firm carrying out a contract at Evansdale, and were engaged at work vvhen they saw flames leaping from the house, which was some distance away. Grabbing several buckets they were using,' they ran to the seene and while Mrs. Ireland was being helped outside, other men organised a bucket relay from water tanks. The fire was finaily quelled after gutting one room and damaging the others. A part of the house is still habitable. It is not known how the fire startbut it is thought the- younger child might have been plaving with matches and set a couch on the front verapdah on fire.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 4
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