FIRE IN PINE PLANTATION
MANY ACRES BADLY DAMAGED FLAMES LEAP ACROSS FIRE BREAK (From Our Own Reporter) NELSON, December 12. Considerable damage was done to several acres of Radiata pine in a plantation at Redwoods Valley, yesterday afternoon, when a sudden wind change carried flames from a forest service rubbish fire across a newly-formed firebreak. A patch of gorse on the Forest Service’s nursery site was being burnt off, and 15 men with a fire engine and fire pump were standing by. When the wind changed suddenly and strengthened, the flames leapt across the firebreak, and the best efforts of the fire-fighters could not prevent them from sweeping into an adjoining plantation owned by Messrs H. Baigent and Sons, Ltd.
More help from various parts of the district was called on until there were 50 men and much equipment fighting the fire, which was brought under control about 5 p.m. Fresh gangs of men continued mopping-up operations through the night.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28150, 13 December 1956, Page 3
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