N. BRIGHTON SCRUB FIRE
BUNGALOW DESTROYED.
[pep. peess association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, January 17.
Driven fiercely before to-day’s northwesterly gale, fire swept with lightning speed through a large tract of scrub at north New Brighton, destroying a five-roomed bungalow and its contents, and threatening, at one stage, to wipe out the whole of the residential portion.
Mrs. C. Russell, whose home in Swan Street, was reduced to cinders, had a fortunate escape. Unaware of. the outbreak of fire, until she noticed the flames consuming the washhouse, she grasped her two-year-old child and ran a quarter of a mile, in front of the blaze, to the home of a neighbour, from where she watched the destruction of her house. Many residents removed all their furniture and prepared for the worst, but the Brighton Fire Brigade, together with relays of residents and public works men, controlled ’ne blaze. In four cases, fire swept right to the doorsteps before it was controlled. It is now believed there is no further danger. .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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