MISHAP TO FIREMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 146, 23 June 1933, Page 3

MISHAP TO FIREMAN.

GROPING IN THICK SMOKE. FIRE IN GREY AVENUE. While groping through thick smoke at a fire in a bedding and quilt factory in the city yesterday afternoon, a lireman, Mr. "Russell Preston, aged 29, fell 12 feet from a platform to a concrete floor below, and collapsed. He was taken to the hospital by the St. John Ambulance, where he was found to be suffering from the effect of the fumes. His condition this morning was such that he was likely to leave the hospital to-day. The fire broke out in the premises of Ford, Richardson and Company, Ltd., at 151, Grey Avenue, about 3.30, near an electric motor which drives a kapok teasing and mattress filling machine. It j immediately spread among the loose land baled "kapok, and spread to an 'adjoining room. In this room the ceiling extends only part of the way across, forming a platform. It was to this platform that Mr. Preston mounted, after donning a smoke helmet, and, after I moving about for some time in the dense, (choking smoke, fell to the floor below. jThe damage to the stock is estimated lat £100. I The building is insured in the South 'British Office, and the stock In the I United Insurance Office.