CUT OFF IN FIRE
BOARDERS LEAP FOR LIVES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 4. Trapped in the upper storey of a boarding-house in Carlton Gore Eoad, 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 ten others staying there. The fire originated in the kitchen, sweeping swiftly up the staircase in the centre of the building, which was extensively damaged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 31, 5 August 1940, Page 5
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129CUT OFF IN FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 31, 5 August 1940, Page 5
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