Fireman Injured While Fighting Flames
OUTBREAK IN KAPOK PACTORY Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. When combating a kapok fire in a city factory a member of the city brigade, Russell Preston, fell 12 ieet through tho thick smoke to tho concrete floor below. Ho was taken to hospital. Ho was unconscious and was suffering from collapse but an examin-ation-revealed no apparent signs of injury. Tho fire occurred in Ford, Richardson and Company, Limited, manufacturers of bedding and quilts. Only one end of the building was involved, but an appreciable amount of damage was done to kapok and quilts. The amount of stock carried was valued at about £2500 and the full extent of the damage which it suffered will not be known until an examination is made. Little damage was done to the buildiDg. After donning a smoke helmet Preston mounted a platform to investigate. For a time ho moved about there, being onveloped all the time in dense smoke. It i 3 not known whether he tripped or whether the smoko was too dense to enable him to see, but he suddenly fell from the platform to the floor below'.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7190, 23 June 1933, Page 7
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