SHEETS AS LIFE LINE
ESCAPE FROM FIRE. Two occupants of a Redcar private hotel at Redcar, Yorkshire, where a fire broke out early one morning lately, escaped in their nightclothes from one of the bedrooms by tying together bed sheets and letting themselves down the side of the house. The owner of the hotel, Mr. George Albert Rusk, said: “I was just getting up when I smelt smoke. I roused my son, who was the only other occupant of the house, but we were unable to descend the stairs owing to the terrific heat. “We opened the bedroom window and shouted for help, but when neighbours arrived with a ladder it was too short and we had to know together bedsheets and let ourselves down to ihe street.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 3
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128SHEETS AS LIFE LINE Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 3
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