'The Fire Brigade received the alarm by telephone at 10.48 am, and the firemen were engaged at the scene for about en hour and a quart er, They brought the flames under control' in 25 minutes. Besides, French fire engines responded to the all, but did not go. into action as the Settlement Brigade had the situa tion well In hand. One of the dif culties experienced by the Bubbling Well firemen was the distance of the burning Selory from Avenue Haig.
was necessary 10 lay hose for a Afretch of 1,200 feet before the scene was reached, Altogether some 16,000 feet of here were used in the work Spontaneous combustion was thought responsible for the start of the fire.
The blaze was actually in a vile lage, west of Edinburgh Road, in ter= ritory. under the jurisdiction of the "Special. Municipality"—in the 20 called "bad. lands.
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