TWELVE FIRES IN THREE WEEKS
DAMAGE OVER £50,000 CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Fire bugs have now caused over £50,000 damage in Christchurch within the past three weeks. In all there have been twelve suspicious fires. Superintendent Warner states thatthree firemen had a narrow escape last evening. When taking a lead to the south door of the store a petrol drum burst out, throwing them violently backwards. At the same moment a- brick gable crashed where the men had been standing a second previously. But for the explosion they would probably have been killed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 August 1929, Page 4
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92TWELVE FIRES IN THREE WEEKS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 August 1929, Page 4
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