SPECTACULAR FIRE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 8

SPECTACULAR FIRE

PLANTATION IN FLAMES TWO HOUSES THREATENED A spectacular fin' occurred :it about 1 jun. to-day, wlii'ii flames spread rapidly in the plantation on llio hill behind List <* r Hospital, threatening the wafety of two hill residences. The alarm was given from Lister Hospital in Riverside road, and tin* fire brigade turned out. in the meantime, volunteci' beaters ke'pt I lie llanies in check. The. oat break was just outside the borough boundary, but on the report that houses Were in danger the fire .brigade went to the assistance of the volunteer beaters, and it was not long before the llanies wore extinguish-

As it. was, the fire came within about a dozen feet of the two-storeved house occupied by Mr A. Currie, and it was;-spreading rapidly up the hill towards Mr J. Eurns-Gra'hni ’a residence, which is over the brow of the

The plantation consists mainly of due trees, under which was a quantity of dry grass and pine needles, which made" ready fuel for the rapidlyspreading llanies. Some of 1 he 'smaller trees, too, caught alight, but the Haines did not rise high enough to endanger the older and taller pines. However, had not immediate measures been taken to prevent the spread of_ the llanies, the whole plantation might have caught alight. The property in which the tire, occur red is owned hv Mr.* Barns-Graham.