FIRE BRIGADES BUSY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21617, 9 October 1933, Page 8

FIRE BRIGADES BUSY

FIVE CALLS IN TWO HOURS VARIETY OF MINOR OUTBREAKS Five alarms of fire in two hours were received by brigades in the city and suburbs on Saturday afternoon. At 12.25 p.m. engines from the central and western districts stations attended a call in Burns Street, to a chimney fire, which was easily extinguished, and a malicious false alarm was given at the box at the corner of Mount Eden and Kingsview Roads at 12.49. Machines from the Mount Eden and Mount Albert stations attended. The Ellerslie Brigade at 1.14 went to a house in Adams Street, Green Lane, where fat in an oven had caught alight. No damage was caused. The Parnell engine turned out at 1.58 to the Domain Drive, Parnell, where a motor-car had back-fired and caught on fire The services of the brigade were not required, however, and the car was not damaged to any appreciable extent. The fifth call was received at 2.25 by the Avondale and Point Chevalier brigades, as a result of a gorse fire in Gilletta Street, Avondale, becoming temporarily out of control. In this instance also the services of the machines were not needed. OUTBREAK AT CAMBRIDGE EMPTY SHOP DAMAGED [from our own* correspoxdext] CAMBRIDGE. Sunday At 8.30 last evening a fire occurred in an empty shop and dwelling in Duke Street, owned by Messrs. Moore and Hardy, of Cambridge. , The back portion of the premises was gutted, but the brigade prevented the spread of the flames to two premises adjoining.