FIRE IN FLOODED TOWN
BRIGADE UNABLE TO REACH BLAZE
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
SYDNEY, February 21. (Received February 21, at 12.30 a.m.). At an early hour this morning fire broke out at Kempsey in the Federal Stores. Owing to the flood in the streets the fire engine was unable to reach the blaze.
Mr Anderson and his wife, who live above the stores, were awakened by stones being thrown on the roof, and barely escaped. Several other buildings w'ere threatened. Anderson’s damage is estimated at £IO,OOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 6
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85FIRE IN FLOODED TOWN Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 6
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