SIX GRASS FIRES AND A FALSE ALARM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 11 March 1946, Page 4

SIX GRASS FIRES AND A FALSE ALARM

Seven calls were answered by the Wanganui Fire Brigade over the week-end, three of them within an hour yesterday afternoon. Most of the calls were to gorse or grass fires, and no property damage resulted. The biggest outbreak occurred in Marshall Avenue, Durie Hill, where about an acre of gorse caught alight. The brigade was occupied there for about two hours, from 2.10 p.m. to 4.20 p.m. yesterday. A lead of 1500 feet of hose had to be used. A second machine turned out at 2.49 p.m. to the corner of Burns and Konini Streets, Gonville, to extinguish a grass fire, and at 2.51 p.m. a malicious false alarm was received by private telephone from the vicinity of the Gonville School. This alleged that there was a grass fire in the area.

Saturday’s calls began at 4.40 a.m., when the brigade was called to put out a lire in a heap of coke at the Wanganui Gasworks. Next alarm was at 10.21 a.m. to a grass fire along the railway line near the tramway barn. Two calls to grass fires were ceived on Saturday afternoon, the first, at 4.43 p.m., being to the vincinity of the overhead tramway bridge in Guyton Street, and the second to the railway line in College Street at the rear of Bassett’s factory.