FIRES IN LONDON
OUTBREAK IN Oil WAREHOUSE FIVE HUNDRED FIREMEN GALLED OUT (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph-Copyright. RUGBY, January 19. Orer 500 firemen and a large force of police were called out to deal with a fierce night outbreak of fire at a grease and oil warehouse in Millwall, London docks. The flames, which were exceptionally fierce, were rapidly quelled, but the fire smouldered for many hours and a close watch had to be kept round the buildings. In consequence of the precautions taken the area of the fire was restricted. BLAZE IN INSTITUTION. LONDON, January 20. There were exciting scenes at a fire at the City of London Institution, in Bow road, where 200 aged and bedridden men and women, some of whom were blind, were hurriedly wrapped in blankets and carried out. Sixty nurses available for rescue work placed the patients in wheeled chairs cr wheeled out beds themselves to saftcy. Meanwhile 200 firemen and twenty engines, working on the burning block, put the fire out in two hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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