FATAL FIRE.
BLAZE IN SYDNEY HOTEL.
ONE FIREMAN KILLED. OTHERS INJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 28, 12.45 a.m. Sydney, August 27. A fire, attended by loss of life, occurred in Adam’s Hotel, extending from Pitt Street to George Street, to-night. It started in the fourth floor and gutted that and the third and fifth floors. The firemen were using a Simonis extension ladder, 85 feet long, worked from its own base by electricity, when the top portion, from some unknown cause, suddenly swung out and a fireman named Brown, who was 60 feet up, fell to the roof of a lower building, and thence to the ground, being killed. Leonard Chappell fell 40 feet and was injured. He is in. a precarious condition. A third fireman, named Dwyer, was slightly injured. The damage is very heavy. A large number of inmates had to make a hurried exit, and they lost heavily.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1922, Page 5
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152FATAL FIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1922, Page 5
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