FIRE IN YARDS
OUTBREAK IN INVERCARGILL. EMBERS THREATEN HOUSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. January 3. A fire which broke out about 9.15 tonight in a stack of slab wood used for locomotive fuel in the Invercargill railway yards threatened not only the rest of the timber and one or two railway buildings in the yards but also a number of old wooden houses in Liddell and Clyde Streets.
A howling gale carried sparks and embers for hundreds of yards and while the brigade was fighting the main outbreak, constables and volunteers kept running from house to house dashing buckets of water on places where the burning embers had lodged under the eaves. The fire was close to the railway coal supplies, but the wind carried the flames in the opposite direction. The brigade had the fire under control by 10.30 p.m.. but the stack was still burning fiercely.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 7
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