A FIREMAN KILLED
BY FALLING PARAPET
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright i (Australian •& N.Z. Cable Association.)
MELBOURNE, July 20
A fire at S. B. Ham's, Ltd la bool factory in tiie city caused £6OOO damage. Shortly after the brigade’s arrival the concrete parapet of the building collapsed, falling on three firemen. F. tininess, aged 31, was killed instantaneously ; and Albert McHenry and Herbert Gillj were injured and sent to hos pilal. Holness is the first member of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to be killed while fighting a fire' in. Melbourne. Two other firemen narrowly escaped the falling wall.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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