Vic: $200,000 damage to unit block

AAP General News (Australia)
01-15-2004
Vic: $200,000 damage to unit block

About 20 people had to be evacuated when a fire took hold in an unit block in Melbourne's
south early today, causing up to $200,000 damage.

Metropolitan Fire Brigade commander TERRY FREEMAN says a three-storey block in Dickens
Street, Elwood, caught ablaze about 2.30am (AEDT).

Twenty firefighters using breathing apparatus and supported by a 15-metre high combination
ladder managed to bring the fire under control in …