FALL THROUGH FLAMES
SENSATION AT FIRE,
A HEROIC RESCUE,
MELBOURNE, Sunday,
Fire Officer Latnan was standing perilously on the roof of a blazing factory at Moorgate yesterday evening when the tiles fell in. Latnan dropped seventy feet down a lift shaft, through which the flames were roaring, for four floors. lie crashed through the charred lift into the basement.
Fireman Kelly donned a gas-mask respirator and descended by means of a rope. He tied the rope to Latnan, who was hauled up. The rope was thrown back to Kelly, who tied himself to it before collapsing,and was hauled up unconscious. Latnan is in a serious condition in hospital. The fire illuminated the whole city area and endangered many factories.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 February 1935, Page 5
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