PECULIAR FIRE
LONDON CONDUIT TUNNEL ELECTRIC LIGHT CABLE FUSES British Official Wireless. RUGBY, 9th Soptcmber. An unusual lire occurred last night underneath the Thames Embankment. An electric light cable, carried in a tunnel under the footpath, fused, causing donse volumes of acrid smoke to spread from the shafts. Firemen in gat masks workod by the light of searchlights, and nt one time it was feared the gas mains nearby would be reached. Finally a fire float on the river pumped water into the tunnel and tho flames wero subdued.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 11
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89PECULIAR FIRE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 53, 11 September 1928, Page 11
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