WEEKEND FIRES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 305, 20 September 1943, Page 3

WEEKEND FIRES

A Spectacular Blaze

Tho Wellington Central Fire Brigade had a busy ■weekend, attending eleven calls, only one- of which, however, was a lire of any size. Four were false alarms, two -were chimney lives, one a gorse fire and four property fires. There w:js a spectacular blaze in Howe’s Bane, off ’Dixon Street, shortly before S o'clock on Saturday night, when a large quantity of crepe rubber and chemists’ supplies sent Hames leaping high into the air with billowing clouds of black smoke. The lire, the cause of which is not known, originated in a leanto used as a storeroom attached to Allan’s Products Dtd., manufacturing chemists. The flames x' ere beginning to eat into the main building when the brigade arrived, and. using two leads ot hose, quickly got the blaze under control. Extensive damage -was done to the leanto and its contents. . At 10.30 on Saturday night the brigade was 'called to the Army Stores, Cable Street, where a fire in a box of rubbish was quickly put out with bucket pumps. A similar fire in Martin’s Buildings, Co'iJ’tenay 'Place, an hour later, was dealt’with in the same way. Between these two the brigade dealt with a mattress on fire at 41 Cambridge Terrace.