ESCAPE FROM FLAMES
WIFE WAKENS SICK HUSBAND EARLY MORNING OUTBREAK [by telegraph—own correspondent] • , NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday ij Two New Plymouth residents, Mr. j| and Mrs. A. Paynter, had a narrow g escape when the house they occupy caught fire early yesterday morniug« vj Mrs. Paynter awoke to find herself 1 :j penned in her room by a wall of flames in the passage. She had to scramble through a small space at the top of the window to rouse hot husband m another room where he lgv illDense smoke was drifting across the street when the fire brigade arrived, , bus the flames were controlled befor® they reached the exterior walls of thfl '■ house. The passage and one room wet* gutted and all tho others were daO* .j aged. • _;|
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23134, 5 September 1938, Page 8
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