BRIGADE KEPT BUSY DURING WEEK-END

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 295, 5 March 1928, Page 1

BRIGADE KEPT BUSY DURING WEEK-END

NINE FIRE CALLS HOUSE DESTROYED Nine calls were received by the City Fire Brigade during the week-end. One only was of any great size, a house being a total loss. Two were false alarms. Three more calls were received by suburban brigades. Fire gutted a nine-roomed, two-storey house at 39 Anglesea Street, Ponsonby, shortly after 2.20 a.m. yesterday morning. The building was owned and occupied by Mr. Peter Soljack. The house, a wooden structure, was burning furiously when the brigade arrived. The occupants had made a hurried escape in their night attire, and had failed to save any of the furniture or their belongings. The building was insured for £950 in the State Fire Office and the contents for £l5O with the Mercantile Marine Insurance Company. Soon after 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon a slight gas explosion in a house at 2, Shelley Beach Road, set alight to the wall around the gas ring. The city brigade prevented the flames from spreading through the building. The house, which is owned and occupied by Mr. W. Laycock, is insured for £I,OOO with the South British Company, and the contents for £350 in the Alliance office. A few minutes later a rubbish fire in King Road was extinguished by the brigade, which was called out to a similar fire in Union Street at 9.10 p.m. Two grass fires on vacant sections were attended to by the city brigade yesterday. One was in West End Road, Herne Bay, and the other in Riverside Road, Avondale. The Mount Albert brigade extinguished a blaze in Hendon Road and another in Veronica Avenue on Saturday. The Takapuna .brigade was called to a grass fire yesterday morning. A little before 6 o’clock this morning a fire in Swanson Street slightly damaged a shop owned by Mr. J. Blakey and occupied by Mr. Blakey, a clock maker, and Mr. Cocklington, a boot repairer. The building is insured for £SO in the New Zealand office. The false alarms came from Sentinel Road, Herne Bay, and Argyll Street.