FIRE TRAGEDY
DEMONSTRATION GETS OUT
OF HAND
LISBON, July 7
Nine people were 'killed and ft . 13 seriously injured—mostly boys aged between 12 and 18 years—during a fire brigade demonstration today. Firemen soaked a four-storeyed building with petrol and the flames became uncontrollable. Firemen and their sons who had been installed in the building as "tenants" for the demonstration leapt from the windows or were burnt to death under the eyes of thousands, <
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 9
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73FIRE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 9
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