FOREST FIRES
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE.
IN EASTERN UNITED STATES THREE LIVES LOST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 2.25 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, April 21. Three lives were lost and many people were injured and heavy property damage was caused by forest fires raging over a considerable section of New York and New Jersey States, as a result of one of the worst spring droughts ever experienced in the eastern United States. Three men were burned to death when a motor truck was overtaken by fire. They endeavoured to race through the burning scrub pine, but wer© unsuccessful. Many firemen were overcome by smoke and heat.
Numerous villages and homes were destroyed, also grist mills and the summer hotel at Bedford, New York. The latter was valued at 100.000 dollars. The fire in New York State now covers two square miles, and in New Jersey the fire is equally extensive. The latter was fanned by a forty mile win. It has now been checked' after hundreds of volunteer firemen, including school boys, fought it for seventytwo hours.—Aus. and N. Z. Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 April 1926, Page 7
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179FOREST FIRES Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 April 1926, Page 7
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