BIG FIRE IN SYDNEY
FURNITURE STORE DESTROYED
SYDNEY, 20th February.
■ A fire which caused damage to the extent of £60,000 was responsible! for many dramatic incidents at Camperdown, a suburb--of Sydney, to-day, when the Kilner-Ferns Company's large furniture store was gutted, with a tremendous quantity of furniture, belonging to a hundred private owners. The. flames reached a height of 100 feet, and there were'repeated explosions from the fusing of eleetrie wires and falling walls. Terrific heat kept a huge crowd of onlookers at bay. The firemen had a gruelling time, and there were narrow escapes from injury. The occupants of adjoining buildings were driven ont "three hours before the blaze was got tinder control. V The origin of the outbreak is unknown. ._
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 9
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122BIG FIRE IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 9
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