Firefighters at the Para Rubber Ltd

20 December 1966

Firefighters at the Para Rubber Ltd

20 December 1966

In this photo, firefighters continue to fight the fire from various angles stop the veranda, my son Simon a volunteer firefighter notes in this photo in the top left set of window flames are clearly visible crawling along the ceiling, but not creating as much smoke indicating a clean, very hot fire. Some kind of vapour around top left set of windows.
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Creator: Peter Basire

Area: Central City / Central Christchurch - South

Contributor: Barbara Newcombe

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