FALSE FIRE ALARM
SURPRISE FOR HOUSEHOLDER TELEPHONE MESSAGE GIVEN From Our Oicn Correspondent PUKEKOHE, Friday. A malicious joke wa§ perpetrated at Pukekohe last evening by some person whose identity has not yet been revealed. It appears that some man or youth communicated with the telephone exchange from a public callbox at the western end of King Street, asking the attendant to give the alarm, as a fire had broken out in a residence, which he named, in Totara Avenue, at the eastern side of the town. The attendant received the reply that the report was genuine. Someone then communicated with the superintendent and the deputy superintendent of the volunteer fire brigade, and the former set the siren in motion.
The brigade was quickly at the seat of the supposed fire, but the house was in darkness, the occupants having retired to bed. The owner’s wife was visiting friends when she was advised of an outbreak of fire, and returned post-haste to find the report a false one. Mr. N. L. Brown, the superintendent, said that the alarm was deliberately false, and the person responsible for it deserved imprisonment. The police are investigating.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 12
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192FALSE FIRE ALARM Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 12
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