FUMES HOLD UP A STREET
Pedestrians suddenly doubling ud with^flts of, coughing; traffic slowing up, then coming to a dead stop Next, the jangling of firebells. " This Uttle drama was played out in High Street, Peckham, recently. Clouds of ammonia which escaped from a butchers shop when the cap of a re^ frigerating plant blew up were the cause. A cordon of police was thrown round the building and firemen in gas masks entered and plugged the leak Three firemen were slightly scalded by the fumes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 24
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86FUMES HOLD UP A STREET Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 24
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