OUTBREAKS OF FIRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 6

OUTBREAKS OF FIRE

CITY BRIGADES KEPT BUSY The last day of the old year and the first day of the new were no holidays for the city fire brigades, although there were no major outbreaks. At 2.55 p.m. on Monday a wooden shed at Lockend street, Anderson’s Bay, was badly damaged by fire. At 7.21 p.m. sparks from a locomotive set alight a stack of old sleepers in the railway yards beside Anzac avenue. A justifiable false alarm to the City Dye Works in King street was answered at 7.37 p.m A car was slightly damaged by fire in Lome street at 8.52 p.m., the South Dunedin Brigade attending this call. A room in the old Dominion boarding house (now a storeshed), in. Cumberland street, was slightly damaged by fire, which was dealt with at 11.52 p.m. A malicious false alarm from the corner of Ferguson street and Royal crescent was answered by the South Dunedin Brigade at 1.33 a.m. yesterday. The Roslyn Brigade dealt with a chimney fire in Jackson street, Kaikorai, shortly after mid-day, and at 1.47 p.m. the Green Island Brigade answered a similar call to District road. A second malicious false alarm took the Central Brigade to Silverton street, Anderson’s Bay, at 6.2 p.m.