BRIGADE’S BUSY TIME.
SIXTY CALLS IN FORTY DAYS. The Christchurch Fire Brigade havs been having a very busy time of late. Since December 1, a period of forty days, they have received no fewer than sixty calls, including false alarms as well as calls to actual fires. To show that this number of calls is quite out of the ordinary it may be mentioned that the total number received from July 1 to November 30. 1923 (a period of five months) was only ninety. “ I think we have put up a Dominion record.” said Superintendent C. Warner this morning. No doubt the dry weather has had something to do with the increase in the number of calls. Grass and liedgj fires have been fairly numerous of late. Yesterday with the fire at the Woolston Tanneries and the one at the Avonside Sunday Schoolroom, the firemen had a very strenuous time.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17244, 10 January 1924, Page 8
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