BRIGADE BUSY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 5

BRIGADE BUSY.

MINOR CITY TIRES. Machines from the central and suburban stations answered several calls to fires during the week-end. Only one of the outbreaks threatened to prove serious. but good work by tlie brigade resulted in this being soon under control. A call was received from Stanley Street, a stack of timber having caught (ire. The outbreak was suppressed by men from the central station before much damage was done. The next call was to the Captain Cook Brewery. Khvber Pass. at 1.57 p.m., one machine . being dispatched from Parnell and one from the# Central Station. A stock of boxes in the back yard was found to be ablaze. The fire was quickly suppressed. At 2.2 ft p.m. a call was received from North Street. Newton, fire having broken out in a. cottage. Two machines from the central station rapidly quelled the outbreak. The most serious outbreak occurred in the City Chambers, at the corner of Queen and Victoria Streets, at <5.34 on Saturday evening. The fire originated in the storeroom on the third floor of the building, and the flames damaged the lining and contents of the rooms, in addition to spreading to the lift well. The outbreak was attended by six firefighting units, but it was extinguished with little difficulty.

Two men dispatched from the central station in a truck dealt with a fire in a chimney at 1, Smith Street. Ponsonby, at B..VS p.m. The Mount. Eden brigade had little trouble in handling a grass fire in the crater of Mount Eden at 10.57 p.m.

The central and Western districts stations sent machines to answer a call to the corner of St. John Street and Pompallier Terrace, Ponsonby, at 12.21 a.m. yesterday, but this proved to be a malicious false alarm.