FIRE IN FLATS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 11

FIRE IN FLATS.

i OUTBREAK AT - REMUERA. I, FLAMK.S CAI'SF. DAMAGE. ! —- i To find the t<>]> storey of the house in j whieh lie lived with his wife and family i was in wax tlu* experience of Mr. IF. !:i*<l Muni'!. of 14. Tiilinva Avenue, j l.'einnera. u Inn lie investigated a \ !-i arkliiv: i'i-• -f■ lie heard in the flat ; ail.l\<> him mi. wily after (seven o'eloek ila-t evetri! I .'. Taking his wife ajid five- | tin>m lis.<il,l child. Mr. itedmond left the ■:i< •11 - linrrie<!!v ti> <jive the alarm. ; l-'ii"ine-. f)■'i l ll the llemi'era and Kilerslie ! -tat ion-; :jn-\vereil the call nnd the outjlr«ik w-'-. siv.,'l iinih" - eontrol. I Tl.e o. 11i.-ii!i.- of the uj)|K>r flat. Mr. ami Mr- 1 . (I, );. Stratford. and their three ;da ii" ers. were ;t'is« , nt at the time of j the t-'.'e. I lie flat was eon.^iderahlv |dai:•:t 'jed. t>v«> nmnw, a i>;i:)tre and the | stairfare heiiijr swept by the flames and 1 1lie ' i ntent- de-troye»l. Other rooms in ' ■ the 1 • i:i 1< 1 illu were damaged hy heat and ; smoke. The hoti-e i« owned by Mrs. i i Guv 1 hornton, 117, Fowler's Avenue. ' Mount Albeit.