TWELVE FIRE CALLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27568, 9 December 1950, Page 8

TWELVE FIRE CALLS

Twelve calls were made on the City Fire Brigade yesterday. Three of them were to a gorse fire near Hayward street Mornington, the calls being received at 7.35 a.m., 10.29 a.m. and 152 p.m. The first call of the day was a malicious false alarm at 0.54 a.m. to the corner of George and Warrender streets At 6.10 a.m. there was an automatic false alarm at the premises of Donald Reid and Co., at Pelichet Bay. Machines from the South Dunedin Brigade answered a call at 11.51 a.m. to a chimney fire in a house on the Main South road, and at 1.6 p.m. the same brigade, together with a machine from the Green Island station, attended a grass fire on the railway embankment at Green Island. South Dunedin and Central machines were both present at a fire in Douglas street, St. Kilda, at 2.53 p.m., where damage was done to the back of a washhouse.

A rubbish and hedge fire on the Main South road was attended by the South Dunedin Brigade at 3.39 p.m. Central Brigade machines were then called at 4.6 p.m. to a building in King street, where there was a small fire in a crate of tiles. At 4.44 p.m. there was a call to a grass fire on the St. Kilda Domain, near the tram terminus, which was attended by the South Dunedin Brigade, and at 6.48 p.m. another grass fire was attended near the overhead bridge in Queen’s drive.