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Wednesday 1 November 2023
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Cracking the code
Stoke Fire: ‘Smoke alarms saved us’ SARA HOLLYMAN A Stoke resident is crediting smoke alarms for saving the lives of her family after a fire tore through their home last Friday.
Hazel, who asked not to have her last name identified, has just found a new rental property for herself and her four children after the fire left their Seaview Rd home uninhabitable.
It was just after 11pm when she heard a smoke alarm at the other end of the house as she was readying for bed. “Smoke alarms saved us, I have no doubt that if I didn’t have
those smoke alarms, someone would be burying myself and my children,” she says. Walking down the hallway to check the alarm, Hazel says she could hear the crackling sound of
flames and saw the kitchen basically engulfed. “I just screamed, I didn’t try and put it out because I knew I
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Masks make return Thousands turned out to watch the Mask Carnival in Nelson on Friday. It was the first time the event has run since it was cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Pictured are Rachel Yerbury Wilson and Kate Bevan from the Nelson Sambassadors. Photo: Evan Barnes. More on page 6.
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