Fire at 42 Chantry Street

This is the first occasion in this journal when persons at risk are mentioned it was also an occasion when smart work by a passer by is mentioned who's efforts stopped the fire and thus saved the children.

The Crew
Cpt F A Beale
Sub Cpt W Stevens
Fm J Bull
Fm J Davis
Fm W Blake
Fm V Alexander
Fm H Noyce
Fm C Simkins
Fm W Cornelious
Fm Irwin
Fm H Archer

Left three crew on duty until 12.15
Fm C Simkins i/c
Fm H Noyce,
Fm W Cornelious,

Property owned by Mr Hale Salisbury. Tenanted by
Mr Baverstock this was the fourth of a range of five very old thatched cottages.