HURRIED RESCUE WORK
’ ♦ — Patients Saved From Burning Building (Received January 21. 6.45 p.m.) London. January 20. There were exciting scenes at a tire at a city of London institution in Bow Road, where 200 aged, bedridden men and women, some of whom were blind, were hurriedly wrapped in blankets and carried out. Tlie 60 nurses available for rescue work placed tlie patients in whee-ed chairs or wheeled out the beds themselves to safety. Meanwhile 200 firemen with 20 engines were working on the burning block, and put out the fire in two hours. WAREHOUSE FIRE Fierce Flames Quelled (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 21. 5 5 p.m.) Kugbj •, January 20. Over 500 firemen and a large force of police were called out to deal with a fierce outbreak of fire at a g-ease and oil warehouse at Millwall. London docks, last night. The flames, which were exceptionally tierce, were rapidly quelled, but the lire smouldered for many hours. and a close watch had to be kept round the buildings. In consequence -if tlie precautions taken, the area of 'lto fire restricted.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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181HURRIED RESCUE WORK Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 9
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