Escape From Burning Building
AUCKLAND, Dec. 12. Waking at 4 o'clock this morning, Mr. Maurice Ramsay, a returned serviceman just ont of hospital after a severe abdominal operation, rose and made himself a cup of tea. He then returned to bed. Waking at 5 o'clock, he was eonfronted by a wall of roaring flames in the four-roomed house he occupied at Glen Eden. He escaped through a window in a state of collapse and today is suffering severely from shoek. Three fire brigade machines failed to save the house or contents because there were no fire-fighting mains. Mr. Ramsay 's wife and two children were away for the night at the new home to which the family was moving.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1948, Page 3
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119Escape From Burning Building Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1948, Page 3
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