Five Incinerated
FIRE IN CHILDREN’S SCHOOL HEROISM OF STAFF By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. A fire in the Hightrees Nursery School at Horley, which is attended by children from four to eight years old, of Army officers abroad and others, incinerated four boys and a girl, all under six years old. The lire commenced in a dormitory, where eight children were sleeping, owing to the bursting of an oil lamp used for heating. The principals, the Misses Young and Tucker, found the dormitory filled with fumes and flames. They heroically carried out three children, but the fire prevented further rescues, despite the repeated efforts of the staff, who were badly gassed. Two villagers, attracted by the flames, fruitlessly risked their lives by mounting the blazing stairs and landing. They only descended when their clothes were burning. Forty children who were sleeping on the ground floor were saved. —Sun cables.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 9
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153Five Incinerated Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 9
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