HOUSE DAMAGED
Fire In Cumberland Street Extensive damage was suffered by two rooms of a five-roomed house in Cumberland street at 8.52 a.m. yesterday. When the Dunedin Fire Brigade arrived on the scene flames were shooting out of the building and it was badly burned before the blaze was ultimately extinguished. The contents of the rooms were also extensively damaged. Fourteen calls were answered by the Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Brigade during the week-end. Besides the main gorse and scrub fires, calls were answered to a grass fire at Bedford street, St. Clair; a hedge fire at Arawa street; a gorse’ fire at School Creek; a chimney fire at Elliott street; a plantation fire; a justifiable false alarm and a malicious false alarm; a grass fire at the Woodhaugh Gardens; a fire Jubilee Park and a grass fire near Harraway’s mill at Green Island.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27569, 11 December 1950, Page 4
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