BLAZE IN HOLBORN OFFICE
4000 STAFF QUICKLY WITHDRAWN.
PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDING
British Official Wireless.
Reed. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, June 16. Most of the office staff of 4000 were withdrawn within two minutes of the alarm when fire broke out in the huge offices of the Prudential Life Assurance Company at Holborn to-day. Great crowds watched a strong force of firemen engaged from the tops of watertowers and escapes in subduing the fire. The fire originated in part of the building undergoing reconstruction. Practically all the documents were saved. No one was hurt and. only slight damage was done to the building.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1932, Page 5
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