FIREMEN START FIRE
Reversing their usual duties, members of the Levin Fire Brigade, under the direetion of Superinten■dent W. S. Salmons, set fire to large areas of dry grass in the pit along Oxford Street, in the vicinity of the Levin Primary School. The grass was fired to prevent any possibility of an outhreak by other means, in which case it might get out of control before the arrival of the brigade and constitute a threat to many shops and houses in the vicinity. The fires lit were at times speetacular, particularly as darkness approached and it was not long before brigadesmen had a sizeable audience and no small measure of .as'sistance from children. 1 Hos,es , were kept . manned ;dn readiness for a'n emerggncy " and were brought into use on quite a few occasions to douche adjacent buildings and fences, The dlstriet traffie inspector, Mr. M. Kehoe was on duty in Oxford Street supervis•ing the passage of traffie. Further areas of grass in the borough will be fired tonight. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1948, Page 4
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169FIREMEN START FIRE Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1948, Page 4
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