Asour 5 p.m. on Wednesday the Brigade was called out to a blaze in French Town. The fire was located among some straw at the back of a amall hut in Kuo Tai Chan.
One stream was required to extinguish The Brigade was called out to another fire in French Town just before midnight on Wednesday. By the time the trucks were on the scene the flames had attained tremendous protions, the houses on both sides of Colbert, near the corner of Rue Montauban were burning furiously, and aided by s strong breeze the fire spread with extraordinary rapidity. 5 A per-feot storm of spark flakes was falling all round, in many cases the sparks being carried across the Rue clu Consular by the wind. So hot was it that the firemen had to lie flat onthe ground in order to approach anywhere near the flames. Eight houses were enveloped ere the
all sides they had but Tittle effec. on ough streams were soon playing on had come on the scene and
the fire. Engines were at once sent for, and although by the time they arrived nearly forty houses were involved, the firemen now began to get the upper hand. The glare died out of the aky, but work had to be continued till nearly two o'clock.
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