Fire Damages Home
Fire gutted the attic and in places burnt through the lath-and-plaster ceiling and through the slate roof of a large house in Fendalton last evening. Firemen received the call to the house, at 42 Wairarapa" Terrace at 7.28 p.m. Machines from headquarters and St Albans were turned out. Mr P. Dyer is the occupier. When the first machine arrived the flames had already burst through the roof. Mrs Dyer said the family had just finished dinner and she was in the kitchen when she noticed smoke coming down the inside wall. Her six children were watching television in the ground floor of the two-storey-and-a-half brick and stucco home. , She went outside to see I where the smoke was coming I from, saw the flames from the ‘ roof above the attic and onlythen realised that her own i home was on fire. “I ran straight back and rang the brigade.”
■ Much household furniture, including a piano, a television and a sewing machine, was carried from the house to safety either on the driveway or on the front lawn. Firemen have yet to establish the cause of the fire.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32322, 13 June 1970, Page 12
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