FIRE IN GALE
BUNGALOW DESTROYED AT NEW BRIGHTON
WHOLE SUBURB IN DANGER FOR A TIME.
GOOD WORK BY BRIGADE AND HELPERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH. This Day.
Driven fiercely before today’s northwesterly gale, a fire swept with lightning speed through a large tract of scrub at North New Brighton, destroying a five-roomed bungalow and its contents, and threatening at one stage to wipe out the whole of the residential portion.
Mrs C. Russell, whose home in Swan Street was reduced to cinders, had a fortunate escape. Unaware of the outbreak of fire until she noticed flames consuming the washhouse, she grasped a two-year-old child and ran a quarter of a mile in front of the blaze to the home of a neighbour. Front there she watched the destruction of her house. Many residents removed all their furniture and prepared for the worst, but the Brighton Fire Brigade, together with relays of residents and Public Works men, controlled the blaze.
In four cases the fire swept right to the doorsteps before it was controlled. It is now believed that there is no further danger.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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183FIRE IN GALE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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