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Firefighters fought serious fires in Nūhaka and Dannevirke overnight.

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Firefighters from Kingsway East fire station have responded to some of Dundee's biggest blazes over the past 50 years.

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Occupants were four times more likely to survive a house fire if they had working smoke alarms, so the alarms on Aerodrome Rd did their job saving lives, Sinclair said. “The room wasn’t filled with smoke when they went off, so they picked [the fire] up early.” However, firefighters found the second house, which caught fire in on Monday, did not have working smoke alarms. Firefighters from Dannevirke and Norsewood arrived at Victor St just after 11.10am to find a home well-alight, Fire...

As the blaze grew the mother rushed back inside to save their dog and a few items, but with smoke and flames filling the home the risks were high, he said. Two men from next-door rushed to help her, smashing windows help her escape as the inferno took hold, Churchouse said. He commended the young men for their bravery entering a home to help the woman, but urged people to think before running into a burning building. “Definitely the smoke alarms saved them. They had to crawl out and had s...

In his 1993 memoir, We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans, writer Pete Sinclair evocatively chronicled a period of American history that between 1959 and 1969 saw the development of a remarkable archetype. This was a small, interconnected group of men (and a few even more adventurous women) who, turning their gaze from contemporary, societal norms of regimentation and attainment, chose rather to dedicate themselves to the pursuit of something less productive, more ephemeral, yet vastly more s...