The neighbour of a man who escaped a house fire in Christchurch this morning recalls hearing a “large boom” at the time.<\/p>\n
Emergency services, including five fire crews, responded to the blaze in a two-storey home in Bishopdale’s Clotilda Place on Tuesday morning, finding the house in flames when firefighters arrived, about 9.30am.<\/p>\n
Simonne Hamman, who lives two sections down, said her kitchen window looks directly onto the man’s property.<\/p>\n
“I was just cooking a late breakfast and then I heard this massive boom,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Then I look out the window and this massive fire just erupts from his garage and billows of black smoke in to the air.”<\/p>\n
“So I just yelled to my family: ‘Fire!’ Poor things thought the fire was in our house.”<\/p>\n
Hamman then ran down the driveway and called emergency services, who had already been alerted.<\/p>\n
When the first fire crew arrived at the scene, they needed help to “get the hoses out”.<\/p>\n
“I helped pull the hoses out in my sandals.<\/p>\n
“They needed help so they could connect it to the fire hydrant.<\/p>\n
“It was just the two of them who just happened to be driving past.”<\/p>\n
The man who was “hard of hearing” managed to escape his home that was engulfed in flames, Hamman said.<\/p>\n
“He didn’t hear the explosion and wasn’t aware that the fire was going on until his neighbours alerted him.<\/p>\n
“They got him out okay and he had a friend with him and managed to get his dog out.<\/p>\n
“He’s got a peacock, I haven’t seen the peacock come out yet, but I’m sure the peacock is fine.<\/p>\n
Upset and shaken, the man tried to “hurry” firefighting efforts up.<\/p>\n
“They have their processes and have to do things methodically.<\/p>\n
“The police came to calm him down.”<\/p>\n
Another three firefighting crews then converged on the cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n
The man did not require any medical attention.<\/p>\n
By early Tuesday afternoon, one Fire and Emergency crew and two fire investigators were at the scene.<\/p>\n
Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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