Ex-Serviceman’s Home Burned: Marrow Escape
(P A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 11. Waking at 4 o'clock this morning, Mr. Maurice Ramsay, a returned serviceman just out of hospital after a severe abdominal operation, rose and made himself a cup of tea and then returned to bed. Waking at 5 o’clock he was confronted with a wall of roaring flames in the four-roomed house he occupied at Glen Eden. He escaped through a window in a state of collapse and today is suffering severely from shock. Three fire brigade machines failed to save the house or its contents because there were no fire fighting mains.
Mr. Ramsay’s wife and two children were away for the night at a new home to which the family was moving.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 6
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