NARROW ESCAPE FROM FIRE
WALL OF FLAME BLOCKS STAIRWAY. Bj Telegraph-—Frees Association. Christchurch, April 9. With a wall of flame blocking the staircase, W. G. Duggan, a middle-aged man,, had a narrow escape from death when hw residence in Cashel Street was found to be on fire early yesterday morning. He managed to get to the window, and in his night attire leaped to a lean-to bunding and then to the ground. The blaze originated in the centre of a block of shops on the east side of the Zetland Hotel and, before it was suppressed, the centre of the block was gutted and two shops and a residence were seriously damaged. The heat became so intense that all the occupants of the Zetland Hotel had to leave the building, as there was danger of the fire breaking through the windows. All the windows on the east side of .he hotel were broken by the heat. The damage is estimated at several hundreds of pounds.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1928, Page 11
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