OVERCOME BY SMOKE
SERIOUS BROOKLYN FIRE HUNDREDS REQUIRE AID (United Frew Association—By Electric Telegraph , Copyright). NEW YORK, April 20. A hundred firemen and several hundred underground railway passengers were overcome by acrid smoke from a persistent blaze in a Brooklyn waterfront warehouse to-day. The fire ignited a quantity of rubber and tar paper, and with repeated explosions the accumulated gases defied the efforts of 400 firemen to extinguish it v Great billows of black • smoke were sucked into the underground railway, causing annoyances to thousands of passengers, while it was necessary to remove hundreds, many of whom required hospital attention. The underground ventilating system carried the smoke for several miles through the tunnels, halting transportation for several hours. In all eight alarms were sounded, bringing 53 pieces of fire-fighting equipment and six ambulances, which spent busy hours removing prostrate firemen, many of whom were seriously burned.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 April 1935, Page 9
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