FIRE-FIGHTING WITH BUCKETS
THAT damage to the extent of £IO,OOO should be caused in a country town of some importance mainly through lack of fire-fighting appliances is an astonishing thing in modern days. Yet this has happened at Waiuku, where three shops were destroyed hv fire and two women narrowly escaped death. There is no fire brigade at Waiuku, and it was only the most strenuous efforts on the part of a crowd —drawing buckets of water from a scant supply—which prevented the flames from spreading further. Had the fire not been opportunely discovered by a party of visiting yachtsmen, who chanced to be the only people awake thereabouts at two o’clock in the morning, the whole of the business portion of the town might have been destroyed with disastrous consequences. Not merely for the protection of property, but for the more vital preservation of human life, the provision of adequate firefighting appliances in all towns should be made compulsory. __
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 23, 19 April 1927, Page 8
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