HOPELESS TASK.
Bucket Brigade Fails To Stop
Conflagration.
N.S.W. TOWNSHIP BLAZE
SYDNEY, December 25
Fourteen shops and a hotel in the business centre at Trangie, 321 miles west of Sydney, on the Dubbo to Bourke railway, were burned on Christmas Eve. The flames were fanned by a strong, wind. There was no fire brigade and no organised water supply.
The residents formed a bucket brigade and fought desperately from roof to roof, but their efforts to stem the conflagration were futile.
The damage is estimated at between £70,000 and £85,000. One firm lost its Christmas stock, "valued at £25,000. Half the other side of the street was burned down three months ago.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 305, 26 December 1928, Page 7
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