BRIGADE’S BUSY DAY
FIVE CALLS ANSWERED In the six hours between 2.30 and 8.30 yesterday afternoon the City Fire Brigade answered five calls to the city and suburbs. Two of these fires occurred in buildings, and the remaining three were grass fires. At 2.37 plm. the brigade waA called to Judge Street, in Judge’s Bay, Parnell. A fire was burning in a boat shed and before it could be put out the weatherboards of two shed had been slightly damaged/ A 3 p.m. there was a call to a grass
fire in gjelwyn Road, K.ohimarama. Nc damage was done. Shortly after live fire broke out in a washhouse block on a property at 54 Brown Street, owned and occupied by Miss Porter. The brigade was called al 5.42 p.m., but by the time the flames were extinguished the block was fairl> badly damaged. The house was insured in the London and Lancashire Office for £2OO.
The two remaining grass fires occurred at 6.45 p.m. and 8.20 p.m. ir Lillington Road and Swinton Street respectively. No damage was done.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 6
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178BRIGADE’S BUSY DAY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 6
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