FROZEN WATER AT FIRE SENSATIONAL SCENES

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 14 February 1929, Page 5

FROZEN WATER AT FIRE

SENSATIONAL SCENES

FIREMEN’S CLOTHES FROZEN

F [CIH.TtX.CI FLAMES WITH ICICLES

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright

(Aunt, and N.Z. Cable). London, Feb 13 (Received 9.20 a..m.i

There were strange scenes in Piccadilly from, midnight to dawn when 20 fire engines and 130 firemen were fighting a fire in the Trocadeuo restaurant.

The firemen’s uniforms were frozen stiff ami huge, icicles formed n the face of the building.

Seventy loads of water to the mains were- used, to combat the. flames, but the water freezing as it left the hoses fell 0 n the fire as hailstones.

The damage was confined to tin upper storey.