ESCAPE FROM FLAMES.
MAN LEAPS TO SAFETY. STAIRCASE BLOCKED BY FIRE. [BV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. With a wall of flame blocking the staircase, Mr. W. G. Duggan, a middlleaged man, had a narrow escape from death when his residence in Csshel Str«et was found to be on fire early yesterday morning. Mr. Duggan managed to get to a window, and, clad in his pyjamas, he leaped to a lean-to building and then to the ground. The fire originated in the centre of a block of shops on the east side of the Zetland Hotel, and before it was suppressed the centre of the block was gutted, and two shops and a residence were seriously damaged. The heat bfecame so intense that all the occupants of the Zetland Hotel had to leave it, as thero was danger of the five breaking through .the windows. All the windows on the east side of the hotel were broken by heat. The damage is estimated at several hundreds of pounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19917, 10 April 1928, Page 8
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