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THEATRE ROOF COLLAPSES TWELVE KILLED AND MANY INJURED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BROCKTON (Massachusetts), March 10. (Received March 11, at 10.45 aim.) The Strand' Theatre roof, weighted with snow and ice and weakened by flames, crashed down to-day upon firemen, burying them beneath tons of steel and concrete. At least 12 firemen are dead and 20 injured, five of them critically. The authorities fear that two or three others are buried in the debris. The death toll of the firemen is said by the National Fire Protection Office in Boston to be the greatest in New England’s history. All the dead and injured were among the firemen, who were battling the flames, which were, fed by a highly inflammable moving picture film, from the balcony of the theatre when the roof crashed down.
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Evening Star, Issue 23831, 11 March 1941, Page 6
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134FIREMEN TRAPPED Evening Star, Issue 23831, 11 March 1941, Page 6
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