BANDSMEN AS HEROES
“TURN ON THE HEAT.” A hotel dance band at Lancaster was playing a fox-trot, “Turn on the Heat,” early one morning recently when the members of thd' band were told that a fire had broken out in a near-by block of buildings. Dropping their instruments, the bandsmen rushed to the blaring buildings to help in the rescue work. Still in their dress clothes, they drove cars from a burning garage, carried furniture into the street, and assisted firemen to fight one of the worst fires Lancaster has known. The damage was estimated at £50,000. Flames menaced about 20 houses, and a newspaper reporter, who discovered the outbreak, awakened the sleeping inhabitants. Householders rushed to the street in their night clothes some carrying bundles of clothing and others carrying furniture. By the time the Lancaster Fire Brigade arrived all the houses in the vicinity were evacuated. The corrugated iron roof of the garage became red hot, and policemen,, civilians and the bandsmen drove about 50 cars to safety.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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170BANDSMEN AS HEROES Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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