BIG BLAZE IN SYDNEY.
FATAL FALL OF FIREMAN. SYDNEY, Aug. 27. A, lire, attended by loss of life, occurred in Adams’ Hotel, extending from Pitt to George streets, to-night. It started in the fourth floor, and gutted that and the third and fifth floors. The firemen 1 were using an extension ladder, eighty-five feet long, worked by electricity. The top portion, from some unknown cause, suddenly swung out, and a fireman named Brown, sixty feet up, fell to the roof of a lower building and thence to the ground and was killed. Leonard Chappell, another fireman, fell forty feet, and is in a precarious condition. A third fireman, Dwyer, was slightly injured. The damage is very heavy, and a large number of inmates who had to make a hurried exit lost heavily.— Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2474, 31 August 1922, Page 4
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134BIG BLAZE IN SYDNEY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2474, 31 August 1922, Page 4
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