DISASTROUS FIRE
MARKET AREA GUTTED TROOPS FIGHT FLAMES (Rec. 8.10 p.m.) BANGKOK, Feb. 14. All available British troops, Gurkhas, and Sikhs were called out to help to fight a great fire which, after starting in the well-known Silverware district, within a few hours swept through the most densely populated market area of Bangkok, gutting thousands of small houses and threatening to make at least 10,000 homeless. It is feared that the casualties will be very high. The majority of the blazing houses belong to Chinese, but numbers of Siamese and Indian dwellings have also been destroyed. Low water pressure hampered the fire-fighters while a wind fanned the flames.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26078, 15 February 1946, Page 5
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