TWO FIRES IN SYDNEY.
SOME THRILLING ESCAPES,
(Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, November 7. Two fires occurred at an early hour this morning.
The top floors of the Young Sheep Shearing Company’s premises in Spring Street were gutted. Fireman Finn pluckily rescued a man, woman and child, clad in their night clothes from the' roof of the threatened building. The daimigc was heavy. The second-outbreak was at Kromley House, in Kent Street, occupied by various firms. The damage was £6OOO. An 80-foot ladder, with three firemen on, collapsed, but 'luckily the broken portion * rested on a wall till the men escaped from their perilous position.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 7 November 1912, Page 6
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104TWO FIRES IN SYDNEY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 7 November 1912, Page 6
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