FIREMEN SEARCH BURNING HOUSE
Four Persons Thought To Be Inside (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. August 2. Firemen this afternoon -fought against fierce heat and thick smoke when they searched for a mother and three children thought to be inside a blazing 100-year-old wooden house at 324 Parnell road. Neighbours told the firemen the four were likely to be inside, but the fears proved groundless. The firemen found no-one and the police found out later that the mother, Mrs H. Brabet, was in hospital and her children, ranging from five years to 15 months, were with friends. The fire destroyed most of the interior of the 10-room twostoreyed house but left the kauri wooden weatherboard shell standing. Firemen donned breathing apparatus and safety suits to search the house, while others hosed the blaze. An ambulance stood by. The house is named "Pine Lodge” after a 150-foot Norfolk pine tree which stands alongside.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29273, 3 August 1960, Page 14
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