FIRE DRAMA
ACTRESS AMONG RESCUERS MOTHER WITH SLEEPING BABY The stage and film star Miss Cicely Courtneidge helped to carry valuables to safety from an earlv-morning fire at Croydon. She was motoring from London through Croydon and stopped to lend a hand in the salvage work. People hurried from their beds when awakened by the blaze, in which a furniture store and a wool shop were seriously damaged and tiiree houses were involved, near London Road. Four families became homeless. Five men were injured. Patients in the Croydon Hospital, only 200 yards away, could see the reflection on the ward windows. Nurses allayed their fears. Mr, Alfred Garcia entered one of the houses to turn off the gas. On his way back the roof caved in. He received injuries to his shoulder and right arm. Two firemen were also injured. The homeless families were Mr. and Mrs. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and Mr. and Mrs George Booth, all living in Church Path. Mrs. Hughes rushed out with her sleeping baby only just in time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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