OUTBREAK OF FIRE
OCCUPANTS TRAPPED ON ROOF. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, May 30. (Received May 30, at 11.15 p.m.) A fire in Linden Court, Castlereagh street, early this morning trapped the caretaker’s family of six on the roof. They awoke to find the building ablaze and escape by way of stairways cut off. They fled to the roof in their night clothes. The night was bitterly cold. The firemen after a difficult task rescued them uy means of ladders from the adjoining building. The fire caused considerable damage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19803, 31 May 1926, Page 7
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