BENZINE FIRE.
t BLAZE AT DUNEDIN. GARAGE BASEMENT GUTTED. DUNEDIN, ,Jan. 6.—Blazing petrol floating on tons of water poured on a fire by the brigade presented a new phase of fire fighting to the City brigade to-night. The fire broke out in the basement of the New Zealand /Motor and Engineering Co. in the centre of a thidk business block. The adjoining warehouse of Sargood, Son and Ewen was menaced,, but after a great fight in intense heat and. suffocating benzine fumes, the brigade extinguished the fire which was confined to the basement where eight cars were stored. Four badly damaged and three others were scorched. One car valued at privately ownedf was covered with a tafpaulin and escaped. The building and contents were insured.—(P.A.) i
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Wairarapa Age, 7 January 1926, Page 5
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126BENZINE FIRE. Wairarapa Age, 7 January 1926, Page 5
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