The Archive · 1937

Fire Through Fighting

Brigade Watchtowers reported 26 fires on Sunday, two located in Pootung and the remainder in Chapei, Kiangwan and the occupied territory.

The ambulance service attended 22 calls and conveyed 20 persons to hospital. Only one war casualty was reported. Two street accidents were dealt with, the remainder being sick-mess cases, The fire fighting service continued the work of damping down and extinguishing further outbreaks of fire at Broadway and Hwakee Roads.

One special call was attended at the request of the Police and the flooded boiler room of Yangtszepoo Police Station was pumped out.

Yangtszepoo Division responded to a call at 1638 but found that the outbreak was beyond the Settlement Boundary at Ward and Lay Roads. No action was taken and the machine returned to its Station.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account