Fire warning ‘not sounded’
PA Wellington Tenants trapped temporarily by fire and smoke on the tenth floor of a block of flats in suburban Newtown yesterday said the alarms were never sounded. One woman was overcome by smoke and was taken to hospital. Fire broke out in a storeroom. Tenants on the floor said the first they knew of
the fire was when firemen arrived. The cause of the fire is still being investigated but tenants said the storeroom contained only empty beer bottles and carpet tiles. The Wellington fire commander. Mr Roger Bishop, said he was concerned that so few people had left the building. A number of deliberate false alarms had left the tenants complacent, he said. ' .
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Press, 15 February 1982, Page 1
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