Spit Fire Brigade Members 1901
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Photo caption – “PREPARING FOR PERILOUS WORK. Wilkie. Photos.”
From Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections
Photo description – “Showing two of the Spit Fire Brigade, in smoke Helmets, during the fire on board the N.Z.S, Company’s steamer Waimate, at Napier, December 3 and 4, 1901, ready to go into the hold of the Waimate. These men took it in turn to go below during the whole of the first night, when some of their fellow-workers were pulled from the hold much exhausted.”
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Spit Fire BrigadeLocation
Napier HarbourFormat of the original
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3-4 December 1901Accession number
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