FIERCE FIRE
ON BROOKLYN WATERFRONT UNDERGROUND passengers AFFECTED (U.P.A. by Elec. Tat. Copyright.) (Received April 20, 5.5 p.m.) .NEW YORK, April 20. One hundred firemen and several hundred underground railway passengers were overcome by acrid smoke from a persistent blaze in a Brooklyn waterfront warehouse today. Tile fire ignited a quantity of rubber and tar paper and, with the repeated explosions of accumulated gases, defied the efforts of 400 firemen to extinguish it. Great billows cf black smoke were sucked into the underground, causing annoyance to thousands of passengers, while it was necessary to remove hundreds, many cf whom required to go to hospital for attention. The underground ventilating system carried the smbke several mile? through the tunnels, halting transportation for several hours. In all eight alarms sounded, bringing fifty-three pieces of firefighting equipment and six ambulances, which ispent busy hours remov ing prostrate firemen, many of whom were seriously burnt.
Protect yourself against loss by fire by . insuring with the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd.— W. Lissant Clayton
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12534, 22 April 1935, Page 5
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