HOUSE FIRE PERIL
FAMILIES ALMOST TRAPPED
FINE RESCUE BY BRIGADE
MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, Jan. 9. Seven people were almost trapped in a burning house in Wellington Street in the city early this morning, but through great work by firemen all escaped without injury. Mr and Mrs G. K. Browne and their three children, aged two, seven and nine years, and also Mr and Mrs H. B. Jackson and a youth named Douglas Grant, were sleeping upstairs in a wooden two-storied house when fire was discovered. The Jacksons and Grant escaped by using a sheet rope, while the Brownes hurriedly carried their children on to a. balcony. The youngest child was safely lowered to the pavement in a blanket, hut the mother then fainted and she and the other children were lowered by firemen.
Just- as they were removed flames hurst out of the windows behind them.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 January 1931, Page 9
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151HOUSE FIRE PERIL Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 January 1931, Page 9
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