NARROW ESCAPE
FROM BURlSflNG HOUSE AUCKLAND, Saturday, The occupants of a six-roomed house situated in Ridge Road, Mount Roskill, had a lucky escape from being burnt alive shortly before two o'clock this morning. A small child awoke to find the house iri Hames, xand by its cries wakened its father, Mr. Dorn, who immediately aroused the rest of those sleeping iri the house. Mr. Dorn was able to rescue the child and his wife, and his son, who was on a visit to the house, rescued his grandfather. Mr. Dorn said that had his son not heen i'n the house at the time,- his own father could not have been saved from being burnt alive. The child awoke in the nick of time. The Mount Roskill brigade, which attended the outbreak, confined its activities to saving an attached shed and a haystack, in which task it was suecessful.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 260, 27 June 1932, Page 4
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148NARROW ESCAPE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 260, 27 June 1932, Page 4
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