VAN IGNITES AT PUMP
FLAMES OVER 20FT. HIGH BLAZING PETROL IN STREET [BT TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] HATVERA, Friday High Street, Hawera, was the scene of a spectacular blaze yesterday, when "a delivery van owned by Lightband and Wann caught fire. The flames at one stage reached a height of over 20 -feet. , The van's tank was being filled,at a kerbside pump when the petrol ignited. At one time there was a danger of cars parked alongside catching fire, but they were hurriedly removed to safety. Overflow petrol coming from the van's tank and the feed of the bowser entered the stormwater channel ignited, blazing for about half a chain filon 0 * tli© street. The fire brigade quelled the flames after tl.o van had been extensively damaged. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 14
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