EARLY MORNING FIRE
TEN PERSONS ESCAPE FROM HOUSE
(P.A.) MASTERTON, July 27. Ten adults who w'ere sleeping in a seven-roomed house at Masterton after gathering for a wedding anniversary escaped from the house when it caught fire early this morning. The fire, which began at 5.13 a.m., practically gutted the house. The Are started in the breakfast room, and it was confined there for some time, but burst out with startling speed. The occupants had narrow escapes from being overcome by the smoke and made hurried exits out of the windows. Mrs L. G. Fenwick, the wife of a tenant of part of the house, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital with « severe cut to an arm. She was injured when breaking a pane of glass In the front door to try to let out another occupant. The house was owned by Mr J. O’Donald and was insured for £9OO. The contents were not insured, but the part-tenant, Fenwick, had his effects insured.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25247, 28 July 1947, Page 6
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