SHEDS, CAR GUTTED
Week-end Fire Calls Four sheds and an old car were gutted in a fire on the property of Theo Roeloff, an orchardist, of 83 Mackenzie avenue, Woolston, on Saturday afternoon. Neighbours removed a late model car from one of the sheds but the flames spread so quickly that they could not get the old car out
Tins of paint exploded as the flames, fanned by a strong wind, swept through the buildings. Two units from the Woolston station attended the outbreak.
Mr Roeloff said that he saw a small fire in the tool shed and had smashed a window so he could put it out with a garden hose but a gust of wind swept through the window, causing the flames to spread quickly. Two units from the Central station went to a fire which broke out in a mop on the premises of A. F. Burdon, Ltd., of 75 Peterborough street, on Saturday morning. Twelve bales of hay were destroyed and 20ft of paling fence were slightly damaged when a fire broke out on the property of Allan Kirk, at 153 Hackthorne road. Units from the Central and Sydenham stations answered a call at 12.51 p.m. One unit from the Sockburn station attended an oven fire at tne home of Lloyd Whitcombe at 2 Moffat street at 5.26 a.m. yesterday.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31031, 11 April 1966, Page 10
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