FATAL FIRE IN MELBOURNE
A FIREMAN KILLED COLLAPSE OF A PARAPET. Received Julv 20, 10.15 p.m. MELBOURNE. July 29. A fire in S. B. Harris Ltd.’s boot factory in the city caused £6OOO damage. Shortly after the brigades arrived the •oncrote parapet of the building collapsed. falling on three firemen. F. Molness (aged 31 ) was killed instantaneously. and Albert McHenry and Herbert Gill injured and sent to hospital. Holness is the first member of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to be killed fighting a fire in Melbourne. Two other firemen narrowly escaped the falling wall.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19363, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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