BITUMEN BLAZING
Received Mondav, 12.10 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Sovcn fire engines at Trad'ord Parl last uight, were lighting the biggest fin even seen in Ihe Manchester area.._..Tln liremen wefe sprayhig a lake of biazlng bitumen 100 yards long and 75 yard broad, tlie result of a tiro in a bondin:, warehousing liolding barrels of bitumen The liremen had to stand kueo deep in bitumen as the barrels Inirst. It is estimated that it will take two days be f'ore tlie liremen can completely subdue tlie blaze..
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1946, Page 5
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