A SCRUB FIRE.
FIRE FIGHTERS’ STIFF BATTLE. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 15. Many houses were seriously threatened by a scrub fire in the Estuary road, New Brighton, yesterday afternoon. For seven hours volunteer fire fighters were engaged quelling the flames, and they succeeded only after u stiff battle. At one stage a man named Foote was overcome by the smoke and heat, falling unconscious. He was not rescued until his hair and eyebrows had been singed and he had suffered burns to his arm.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20334, 16 February 1928, Page 10
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86A SCRUB FIRE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20334, 16 February 1928, Page 10
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