UNUSUAL CAUSE OF BIG FIRE
LONDON, June 2, An eyepiece of a dumped eivilian gasmask, aeting as a magnifying-glass, began a fire in 10,000 tons of serap rublier at the Government depot at i\fiteham, which east sueh a mnshroom like pall over London that it blotted out the sun in rnany distriets, says the Daily Mafl. If is the biggest London ftre since the blitz days. Workocs at threatened factories helped firemen to roll thousands of tyres aside to create a ftrebreak. The blaze was controlled after a four-hour hght.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1947, Page 5
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