FIREMEN FIND THE WRONG PLACE
JjMREMEX mistook the red ] light of a lamp for a fire at Broadway. New- | market, on Saturday even- | ! mg. With a swiftness known | j only to fire-fighters, they placed a ladder against the wall, scaled up. threw open the window and popped the hydrant through. A man and his wife, who were reading in bed, received the full force of the water, and their shrieks soon told the firemen that they had come to the wrong place. The fire was really next door, in Miss Nicol’s confectionery shop, but it was at ! the back of the premises. When the firemen arrived in answer to the call they lost no time in getting down to j ’ business. || The red light which was I burning in the upstairs room next door looked like fire, i and the men acted accord- .j ingly, with distressing re- \ I suits. • Two very moist' people had ! to find dry bedclothes before j I they could settle down for I i the night again.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 207, 21 November 1927, Page 14
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172FIREMEN FIND THE WRONG PLACE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 207, 21 November 1927, Page 14
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