FIRES IN NEW YORK
Cold Weather Hampers Brigades FIFTY FAMILIES HOMELESS New York, January 29. Bitter cold which dropped the temperature from 57 degrees yesterday to 5 degrees fill's morning, with a 56-mile-an-hour north-west gale, caused much suffering and hampered the firemen in fighting two spectacular blazes in Brooklyn to-day. One was in the Carlisle section, where several blocks of seaside cottages at a seaside amusement centre, fortunately most of them untenauted in the winter seasou, were razed. The estimated damage is 150,000 dollars. The other fire. was in the Flatbush section, where four multiple family dwellings were gutted and nine others partly burned. Fifty families were driven into the bitter cold. The damage is assessed at 100.000 dollars. Three hundred firemen fought the blaze, and thirty were injured by frilling walls, frost-bite, and exposure.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 108, 31 January 1934, Page 9
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135FIRES IN NEW YORK Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 108, 31 January 1934, Page 9
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