WEEK-END FIRES
Slight damage was caused by a fire in the Dunedin City Corporation Electricity Department’s store, Cumberland street, on Saturday. The fire broke out among some filter papers in a drying oven, and was extinguished by the Central Brigade at 11,54 a.m. The Roslyn machine answered a call to a grass fire in Robin Hood quarry. City road, at 6.34 p.m. Shortly after midnight on Saturday the brigade was called to a hedge fire at the Girls’ High School, the blaze being extinguished without damage to the property. At 3.17 p.m. a fire in a washhouse in Cumberland street was extinguished. The cause was the falling of hot embers on to the floor, which was slightly damaged. A rubbish fire on the Main South road was attended by the Green Island Brigade at 3.31 p.m. yesterday, and at 6.18 there was a justifiable false alarm which summoned the brigade to premises in North-East Valley.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26614, 10 November 1947, Page 7
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