LEFT- Firemen battle a fire at the home of Robert and Brenda Pollock, in Torlesse Street, Nelson, on Thursday evening. Their’two children, Robert, aged five, and Michael, aged three, were rescued by Stephen Ching, of Christchurch, who was on holiday with his family in the house next door. RIGHT: Stephen, a student at the University of Canterbury, shows how he climbed up a six-metre pole to get over a fenced walkway and into the children’s bedroom. From there he dropped them into the arms of rescuers below.
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87LEFT- Firemen battle a fire at the home of Robert and Brenda Pollock, in Torlesse Street, Nelson, on Thursday evening. Their’two children, Robert, aged five, and Michael, aged three, were rescued by Stephen Ching, of Christchurch, who was on holiday with his family in the house next door. RIGHT: Stephen, a student at the University of Canterbury, shows how he climbed up a six-metre pole to get over a fenced walkway and into the children’s bedroom. From there he dropped them into the arms of rescuers below. Press, 30 August 1986, Page 3
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