LEAPED TO SAFETY
Young Men’s Escape From
Blazing House
TRAPPED IN UPPER STORY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 4.
Trapped in the upper story of a boarding house in Carlton Gore Road, Newmarket, early this morning, when fire cut them off from the fire escape, six young men, jumped from windows to a lawn 20 feet below. Another man, who climbed on to the roof of a sun porch, leaped on to the roof of the house next door, suffering lacerations to his right leg and arm when he broke through a window. The house, which was of 14 rooms, 'was occupied by Mrs. Madeline Olive Bragg, and there were 10 others staying there. The fire originated in the kitehen., sweeping swiftly up the staircase in the centre of the building, which was extensively damaged.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 266, 5 August 1940, Page 9
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