Electrical Goods Destroyed

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 1

Electrical Goods Destroyed

Smoke rose hundreds of feet when fire consumed the bulk store of Wooff and Salvesen, Ltd, electrical suppliers, in Lichfield Street, yesterday afternoon. The value of the damage was not available last evening. A call was received by the Christchurch Fire Brigade on the automatic alarm system at 3.30 p.m. and was followed by a number of telephone calls. When the first fire engines arrived the flames had a good hold. The whole interior of the old corrugated iron building appeared to be ablaze. Additional units were summoned when the seriousness of the fire was realised. Seven fire engines attended the outbreak—four from the central station, including the turntable ladder, two from Woolston and one from Sydenham.

It was a difficult fire to extinguish, said the chtef fire officer (Mr L. R. Osmond).

Thousands of gallons of water were poured on the blaze from seven hoses. It was half an hour before the fire was brought under control.

The store contained many closed tn traffic by traffic offithousands of dollars worth of cers of the Christchurch City . . Council; a number of pohceelectncal equipment and spare men an ’ d a dog P were parts for vehicles. Included engaged in keeping back the in the equipment were some crowd which gathered, highly specialised parts for The cause of the fire, diesel fuel injection systems, which started in the spare Lichfield Street from Co- parts section of the store, is lombo to Durham Streets was unknown.