HEROIC FIREMEN
ATTEMPTED RESCUE OF INFANTS FATAL FIRE AT NURSING HOME. NURSES AND BOYS ASSIST. ; United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. Two firemen, finding jt impossible to enter a room by a ladder, donned gas masks and fought their way through a blazing upstairs dormitory of Wilde Oak House, a Taunton nursing home, and snatched four infants from their cots. The wall then collapsed with them outside. Three of the infants died and the fourth was burned, but may recover. The firemen have been sent to hospital. Nurses in their night attire, and boys from the adjacent school assisted in the rescue of 29 other children. One nurse was injured. The- matron collapsed from shock.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 134, 19 March 1931, Page 5
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