Molten Fat And Wax Two Feet Deep After A Warehouse Fire
LONDON, Sept. 7—A detachment of visiting firemen from Denmark assisted local brigades to fight a fire in a dockside warehouse on the Thames todat*. The warehouse was slocked with cooking fats, food and wax, and in some surrounding streets molten fat and wax lay up to two feet deep. Some firemen fought the flames from rowing boats. Several firemen were overcome by smoke and several were burned with Ipt fat.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 September 1950, Page 5
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