HOUSE IN FLAMES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 12

HOUSE IN FLAMES

OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE CHILD GIVES TIMELY WARNING. (Special to Daily Times-) AUCKLAND, March 18. Escaping in their night clothes, the four occupants of a four-roomect house at New Lynn had a narrow escape from being burned to death last night when their house and its contents were completely destroyed by fire. A girl, seven years of age, who was sleeping in the rear room, was rescued by her mother from her bed, which was enveloped in frames. The dwelling was occupied bj Mi’s Timms and her daughter Betty, 1$ years of age, and Mrs A. Alderton aad her seven-year-old daughter Marie. Awakened by the crackling of the burning kitchen at midnight, Betty Timms aroused*" her mother (with whom she was sleeping;) and Mrs Alderton. The latter rushed to a rear room to find her daughter sleeping peacefully with the flames licking ad around her. In snatching the girl from the bed Mrs Alderton’s hair and eyebrows were badly singed. She collapsed when she reached the street with her burden. Mrs Timms also had her hair singed and her feet were severely burned when she endeavoured to save some Valuables in the kitchen. Some sheets of twisted galvanised iron and the chimney were all that remained this morning to mark the site of the house.