MANY FIRE CALLS
City and suburban fire brigades were again kept busy yesterday, and many calls were answered. A unit from the Central Station attended a call, at 11.1 a.m., to a fire which had broken out in a house at Royal terrace. The heat of the flue pipe had ignited a heating room, but no damage was caused. The Roslyn Brigade went to a gorse fire in Northview crescent at 12.38 p.m. and seven minutes later a grass fire in Abbotsford road, Waverley, was attended by the South Dunedin Brigade. Machines from the Central Brigade attended an automatic false alarm from Irvine and Stevenson’s factory at 1.9 p.m., and a grass fire in Anzac Highway at 1.15 p.m. A hedge fire in Leith street at 3.1 p.m., a gorse fire at Kew at 3.40 p.m. and a gorse fire in Hadfield road, Opoho at 4.50 p.m. were also answered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27567, 8 December 1950, Page 6
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150MANY FIRE CALLS Otago Daily Times, Issue 27567, 8 December 1950, Page 6
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