MANY SCRUB FIRES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26532, 6 August 1947, Page 4

MANY SCRUB FIRES

BRIGADES’ BUSY DAY

A scrub fire above Black Jack’s Point yesterday afternoon attracted considerable attention in the city, but there were only a few glowing embers early in the evening. There was a more extensive fire in scrub and gorse in the Kaikorai Valley road, near Burnside, at night, and the southern sky was lit up with a bright glow.' but no property damage was reported. There were several other small outbreaks nearer to the city during the day, some of them requiring attention from the Central and suburban brigades, but the fires were not as extensive or as threatening as those on Sunday. At 10.40 a.m. the Roslyn Brigade dealt with a grass fire in Northview crescent, and at 2.53 p.m. received a call to Drivers road, where a hedge was burning fiercely The South Dunedin Brigade turnsd ou* to a gorse fire in Waimea avenue at 3.31 and at 4,30 an engine from the city was called to Mornington road. A call received at 5.15 from the corner of Dundas and Forth streets was for a justifiable false alarm. The Green Island machine dealt with a grass fire in the Kaikorai Valley road, the call to which was received at 6.41.