FIREMAN HURT
Kerosene Can Explosion (N.Z. Press Association) NAPIER, September 15. Struck by the full blast of an exploding four-gallon can of kerosene during a fire in a doctor's surgery, a member of the Napier Fire Brigade this evening was thrown down a flight of stairs. He is Senior Fireman T. Billington, aged 24. who is now in Napier Hospital with severe burns to his face and both arms, a dislocated shoulder and shock. His condition tonight is “comfortaole..
This is the second time which Mr Billington has been injured while fire-fight-a finger in a Napier woolstore blaze _ k Th ® s ?i rg £ ry ' occupied by Dr. A. M. Fisher, was badly damaged. y
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29620, 16 September 1961, Page 10
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