BLAZING PETROL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2338, 7 January 1926, Page 6

BLAZING PETROL

FLOAT ON IT RE-FIGHTERS’ DELUGE. GOOD . SAVE IN DUNEDIN. [Per Press Association.! DUNEDIN Last Night Blazing petrol floating on the tons of water poured on a fire by the brigade presented a new phase of firefighting to the City Brigade to-night. The first big petrol fire here broke out in the basement of the New Zealand Motor and Engineering Co., In Dowling street, in the centre of a thick business block. The adjoining warehouse of Sargood Son and Bwen was menaced, but after a great fight In intense heat and suffocating benztno fumes, the brigade extinguished the fire, which was confined to tbs basement where eight cars were stored. Four of these were badly damaged and three others scorched. One car valued at fIOOQ, and privately owned was covered with a tarpaulin and escaped undamaged. All the other cars with the exception of on-' owned by Mr J. Niven, of Macandrew Bay, and valued at £495, which wm damaged considerably, were owned \.j the company.

On the*floor above. twenty-thn»i cars, all nearly new and of expo:. - slve makes, were stored, but the brigade prevented the fire burning through the wooden floor. Th« building and contents were insured, but the amounts have pot been ascertained.