FIRE OUTBREAKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24261, 1 April 1940, Page 9

FIRE OUTBREAKS

'A BUSY WEEK-END The City Fire Brigade was called on six occasions over the week-end, all the outbreaks being of a minor nature. Shortly before 11 o’clock’ on Saturday morning, the machines were called to a four-roomed house with a shop attached in Dundas street. A fault in a radio set had caused a small fire, which damaged the set and a wall, but the blaze was extinguished before it had time to spread. At 4.55 p.m. on Saturday, the South Dunedin Brigade was summoned to 7 Grove street, St. Kilda, where fire had broken out in a detached workshop. The building was completely gutted. The cause of the outbreak is not known.

A spark from hot ashes set fire to a dividing fence on a property in Leith street yesterday morning, the brigade being called at 10.54 a.m. At 11.32 a.m. a gorse fire in Buchanan and Agnew streets, North-East Valley, received the attention of the brigade, and less than half an hour later the Roslyn machine attended a similar outbreak at the Otago Golf Club's Balmacewen course. A malicious false alarm called the machines at 11.40 a.m. to the corner of Elgin road and Gardner street, Mornington, and a chimney fire at Burwood avenue occupied the attention of the brigade at 2.30 p.m.