FIREMEN INJURED
CONTACT WITH POWER LINE,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
MASTERTON, This Day. A fire, at eleven o'clock last, night destroyed a' five-roomed house at Lansdowne, owned and occupied by Thomas Voyce, a storeman in the employ of the Power Board. _The house was insured, but there was no insurance on the furniture. Shortly after the arrival of the Fire Brigade, two firemen, W. M'Laren and W. Tait, were injured through coming into contact with a live wire, and could not be freed until the current was cut off. Tait was injured in the lower part of the body, and M'Laren was rendered unconscious/ Both men were taken to the hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 9
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