FOUR FIREMEN INJURED
BURIED BY WALL FALLING MELBOURNE FACTORY FIRE (Received May 12, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 12 Four firemen were seriously injured, one critically, when they were buried beneath a pile of red-hot masonry and bricks from a wail, which fell in the course of a four-hour battle with a fire in a furniture factory, which was destroyed. The wall toppled over, following upon a series of explosions as hundreds of tins of lacquer and varnish ignited. The men were extricated with difficulty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22107, 13 May 1935, Page 9
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