GARAGE IN FLAMES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 5

GARAGE IN FLAMES.

MAN SEVERELY BURNED. PROMPTLY RESCUES A CHILD. WANGANUI, Saturday.—The Wanganui tire brigade demonstrated its efficiency last evening when its promptness saved a conflagration and perhaps loss of life. The outbreak occurred at Martin and. Vernon’s garage. Mr Martin was putting petrol into a car when a flare arose all round him, and his clothes caught fire. A passer-by immediately gave the alarm and the brigade was on the scene in a few seconds. Assistance was rendered to Mr Martin, who was severely burned about the hands and arms. The rafters in the root were already ablaze, hut a hose was quickly run out and the tire was suppressed. The smoke had ascended, penetrating the rooms on the first lloor, in one of which a driver lay asleep. In ajnothei* room was U.he eight-year-old daughter of Mrs Vernon. Attention was directed to the child’s predicament, and despite his burns Mr Martin dashed upstairs and rescued the girl, no easy tatsk in the dense smoke and llnmes. The driver had a rude awakening. Clad in his pyjamas he effected an exit through a window. His hair and eyebrows were singed, but otherwise lie wa.-, little the worse for his experience. 't he damage to the building is covered by- insurance.