RATS' NEST ABLAZE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 10

RATS' NEST ABLAZE.

PLUMBER'S EXPERIENCE. BLOW LAMP ACCIDENT. A fortunate escape from a serious inung, and poeeibly suffocation, was peneneed recently by a plumber, Mr. Vereoe, when engaged in welding «rations in 'tfce city. Mr. Vercoe was standing in a confined ace between the ceiling of the ground «or and the floor of a room above, in block of flats at 23, Princes Street, ty, and was engaged in welding a pper pipe with an oxy-acetylene blow mp. Another workman was on the or above manipulating the" cylinder of e lamp, and Mr. Vereoe was in a ooching position, standing on a hotter tank, and was leaning against a ick chimney. The work on the copper pine had not ne far when Mr. Vereoe, who was on certain footing, slipped, and the open me of the lamp caught a piece of aw which was part of a rats' nest a ledge above He pulled it towards T ~ *** fl * n,e ' and bron S h « whiea wu .bout 12 inches in 2f * k looee,y of etr » w «nd jereomburt.bleniateri.le, down on ? M /- Vercoe then scramble out to avoid suffocation but time * *-» to " *ay from the effects of the smoke. Votames of smoke from the blazing |*tad made rt. ft* . ppemr FZZJZI? iL Wa "' a ■■«"••• from B °fs*** 1 **» •*•£«•» »oon arrived in »P~ £a> dw,. Tto me», howthe meanttme had saothered I , * , ' wma » T « by T?t -r br, S" de its appear- **• Mr - Vercoe soon recovered from e effects of his unpleasant experience.