FIRE IN FACTORY
ns AUCKLAND FIREMAN INJURED 2. LITTLE DAMAGE TO BUILDING i (Per Press Association Copyright.) AUCKLAND, June 22. When combating a kapok fire in city factory, a member of the city brigade, Russell Preston, fell 12 feet through thick smoke to the concrete | floor below. He was taken to the hosr I pita I. He was unconscious, and suffer- | ing from collapse, but an examination , ■ revealed- no apparent signs of injury. | The fire occurred in Ford Richardson and Co. Ltd., innuuif)sctui}3 S ,of bedding: and quilts. Only one end of the building was involved, but an ap- ( preamble amount of damage was done to kapok and quilts. The amount oi stock- carried was valued at about j £25000, and the full extent { >f the damage which is suffered will not be : known until an •examination is made* - Little damage was done to the building, After donning a smoke 1 helmet, Preston mounted a platform to investigate. For a time he moved about there, being enveloped all the time in dense smoke. It is not known whether he ; tripped or whether the smoke was too dense to enable' him. to see, but ho suddenly fell from the platform to the floor below.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1933, Page 1
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