Eleven firemen had a narrow escape from suffocation during a fire at Whiteley's in London. The fire broko out in a basement stored with linen and cotton goods, and the firomon, Who were lowered into it, with hosepipes, woro .quickly overcome by tho smoke. A rescue party equipped with. smoke helmets contrived, after _ ton minutes' search, to find all the missing men, and bring them to tho surface, whence they wore conveyed to hospital. Tho fire, which was confined to tho basement, is believed to have been caused by the fusing of an electrio wire.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 13
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