FIREMEN BURIED
CRUSHED BY THEATRE ROOF AT LEAST 12 DEAD. TRAGEDY IN MASSACHUSETTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) BROCKTON (Massachusetts), March 10. The Strand Theatre roof, weighted with snow and ice and weakened by flames, crashed down today upon firemen, burying them beneath tons of steel and concrete. At least twelve firemen are dead and twenty injured, five of them critically. The authorities fear that two or three others are buried in the debris. The death toll of firemen is said by the National Fire Protection Office in Boston to be the greatest in New England’s history. All the dead and injured were among firemen who were battling with flames fed by highly inflammable moving picture film from the balcony of the theatre, when the roof crashed down.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1941, Page 5
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