DIED AT HIS POST
FIRE BRIGADE FOREMAN
ffly Telegraph, For Frew Association.;
WANGANUI, January 1
.Mr Alexander Hird, foreman of the Central Fire Brigade, collapsed and died while on duty at a fire at one o’clock this morning. The brigade had . been called to St. George’s Gate, part of the old residential quarter of Wanganui, to a blaze in an unoccupied house. The attack was in charge of Superintendent Williams in the first instance, but a call, which ultimately turiied . out to' be a‘ false alarm, took him away, the command of the brigade falling on Mr Hird> who died before the fire; was extinguished. A.n inquest'was opened this morping and adjourned, Deceased was thirty-six years of age’. lib leaves a wife and two children. He had been six years with the, brigade, taking the foreman’s position after being in charge at Castlecliff. He was a splendid type of firefighter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1931, Page 2
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