FIREMEN STRIVE FROM MIDNIGHT TO DAWN
•TRANCE SCENES AT PICCADILLY FIRE.
WATER TURNED TO HAIL.
CLOTHES FROZEN STIFF.
(Received 9.20 a.m.) , , . LONDON, February 13
There were strange scenes in Piccadilly from midnight to dawn, ■when fire engines anti' 130 firemen were fighiting a fire in the •Trocadero Restaurant. ( The firemen’s uniforms were frozen stiff and huge icicles ton the fac? of the building. ' Seventy-feet water-towers were jused to combat the flames. The water,, freezing as it left the hoses, fell on the fire as hailstones.
The damage from fire was confined to the upper storey of tthe restaurant, though much destruction was caused by water. —Australian Press Assn.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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