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Wednesday 21 June 2023
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Retiring crewman reflects on career
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Family homeless after kitchen fire SARA HOLLYMAN A family have been left without a home following a fire that engulfed much of their kitchen a little over a week ago, but the family just want to find their missing cats.
Rachael Sheehan says her daughter was cooking on the evening of Sunday, 11 June and had a pot of oil on the stove. Out of nowhere, the pot caught fire and although her daughter tried to put it out, the flames were instantly sucked up by the range-
hood fan. “Within seconds it was everywhere,” Rachael says. She heard the kids calling out that there was a fire and rushed to the kitchen to shut the door, stopping the spread through the house. The family then evacuated their
Weka St home in just their pyjamas. Neighbours came to the rescue, one smashing a window, the other feeding in a garden hose, which was able to extinguish some of the fire before fire fighters arrived.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager Daniel Reilly says two crews from Nelson responded to the fire around 5.30pm. “It was initially reported as oil on fire in the kitchen and spreading,”
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Brothers in arms and scrums Isaac and Patrick McDougall notched up a combined 275 senior games over the weekend as they teamed up with two other brothers to bring home the Postie Cup for the Marist Saints. Photo: Jack Malcolm. See page 24.
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