HOUSES MENACED
SCRUB FIRES IN THE SOUTH SEVEN-HOUR FIGHT Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Many houses were seriously threatened by a scrub fire in Estuary Roarl, New Brighton, yesterday afternoon, fbr seven hours volunteer fire fighters were engaged quelling the flames, and they only succeeded after a stiff battle. At one stage a man named Poote was bvercome by smoke and heat and fell unconscious. He was not rescued until his hair and eyebrows had been singed and his arm had been burned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 1
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82HOUSES MENACED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 1
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