FIRE-FIGHTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 11 January 1911, Page 3

FIRE-FIGHTING.

TOLL OF A YEAR'S OUTBREAKS. 'Auckland, Monday. Fire losses in Auckland last year were light in the- scale of average. The amount of property immediately involved in buildings and contents through fires within the boundaries of the Auckland Fire Board's district, totalled £22t),(!l)0, bearing insurance risks amounting in the aggregate to £172,000. The total insurance losses for the year, however, on these risks, amounted' to .C 7300, while the actual loss eif property probably amounted in all to about ' £lo,ooo—ii trifling percentage when the value of the property involved is considered. To effect -tliis immense saving 23SS men and 205 vehicles were employed, an average of about 27 men and three vehicles to each outbreak. The losses and ealvings mentioned do not. include three vessels, which would account for a considerable amount of property won from the (lames. The year's small loss, therefore, must lie viewed with not little gratification, both by insurance companies and the owners of property, making as it does one of Auckland's most satisfactory bars in the record of capital gone up iii smoke.