SERIOUS FIRES
BRIGADES' HANDICAPPED
WATER FROM HOSES FREEZES
Dnlted .Press Association—By Electrlo Tel»-j grapb—Copyright. LONDON, December 14. Driven by a high wind, fire wiped out seven houses in the village of Winslow. The firemen were handicapped by a scarcity of water, which froze as it left the hoses. ■ The Thames water' supply has been seriously depleted following the dry summer. Many villages are rationed. One thousand patients at Glamorgan mental hospital at Bridgend were endangered by a fire at midnight which destroyed the administrative block, including all the records. The clock tower collapsed, and several firemen were injured. The water froze on leaving the hoses and the ground became a sheet of ice. The staff marshalled the patients in the farthest block.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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