FIRES IN SEPTEMBER
During September a total of 59 calls were answered by the Wellington Fire Brigade. Of these, 24 were false alarms, only 12 of which were justifiable. Of the 35 genuine outbreaks attended, 14 were property fires, 7 chimney fires, and 14 calls were outbreaks in gorse, grass, and rubbish. For the six months of the fire year to the end of September, the figures are mainly favourable when, compared with those for the corresponding period of last year.1 Slight increases, however, are shown in the numbers of gorge, grass, and rubbish fires, and of malicious false alarms recorded. The complete, figures for the halfyear, with those for the corresponding period of 1937 in parentheses, are as follows:—Property fires 87 (107), chimney fires 45 (75),.gorse, grassland rubbish fires 65 (63), total outbreaks 197 (245), justifiable false -alarms 76 (94), malicious false alarms 54 (50), total calls received 327 (389).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 11
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151FIRES IN SEPTEMBER Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 11
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