Call causes confusion
After a month without a callout the Ohakune Fire Brigade's siren summoned volunteers last Wednesday evening. Both engines attended what proved to be a justifiable false alarm, but not before some confusion over the correct address. A passerby noticed smoke seepingfrom John Mcllroy's plumbing workshop in Miro Street and phoned in the alarm. But at the station a mistake was made and the engines sent further up Miro Street to the residential address of K.J. Mcllroy. "We made a bit of a mistake and went to the wrong one," Firechief Max Martin said. "We should have covered both." In the event, no damage was done. A slow-combustion log fire unit in the plumber's workshop had been turned too low overnight and had smoked the building out, Mr Martin said.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 10, 7 August 1984, Page 8
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132Call causes confusion Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 10, 7 August 1984, Page 8
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