OVERCOME BY SMOKE
TYPIST'S BRAVERY IN FIRE. Returning to work overtime at the office adjoining the warehouse of Messrs. J. Walker and Co., iron and steel merchants, of Fletcher Streat, Bolton, England, recently, Miss Marjorie Randall, a 24-year-old typist, found the place ablaze. After two unsuccessful attempts she pluckily fought her way through the flames and smoke to the telephone in an inner office. She had just time to lift the receiver and give the alarm when she found h'erself being overcome by the smoke. She staggered to the door of the building, where she collapsed and was found unconscious by two men who were attracted by the smoke from the burning roof. After medical attention she recovered sufficiently to be taken hoipe. The firemen succeeded in saving the greatef part of the warehouse, where there are many thousands of pounds worth of stock, but the offices p>art of the building was . gutted, and valuable aqcount-books and documents were destroysd.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 288, 30 July 1932, Page 2
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