SCRUB FIRE AT NORTH BEACH
_ ♦_ HOUSES THREATENED BY OUTBREAK The New Brighton Volunteer 'Fire Brigade received two calls to fires yesterday afternoon. The first was received at 1.35 p.m. to a scrub fire in the block bounded by the Esplanade, Beach road, and Brittania street, North Beach, where about_ 10 acres of scrub and marram grass was burning fiercely. The brigade succeeded in. checking the outbreak, which was extending to the rear of houses in Pacific street. A five-roomed bungalow at the corner of Beach road and Brittania street, occupied by Mrs Brassey was seriously threatened. The brigade, with the assistance of «No. 13 scheme workers from Wairflairi and New Brighton, using shovels and bucket pumps, together with the first-aid hose from the engine, kept the flames from the house, which was undamaged. The brigade, under the charge of Superintendent W. H. Stokes, was seriously handicapped by lack of water. The second call was received at 3.20, five minutes after the brigade had returned to the station, to a fire in a small brush fence in Rookwood avenue which was burnt.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22910, 5 January 1940, Page 6
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