New Britain herald., 1925-10-12
EFFECT RESCUE AT
 WIND.SWEPT FIRE
Children and BoarderS Taken From Winthrop Street House

Damage estimated by Chief Will liam J. Noble at $S,0O0 resulted from two fires yesterday that gave the fire department stubborn battles before they were put under control. The first blaze was about o'clock yes- terday morning in the house at 28 Winthrop street owned by Isadore Birnbaum. When Engine Company 6 arrived in answer to d still alarm the house seemed to be mass of fire, the flames leaping high intno the air from the roof. The company i'm mediately sent in an alarm from Box IT, summoning other apparatus, and then set 10 work on the blaze.
 The fire started in the second floor tenement, occupied by Charles E. Hayward, and ate its way up through the partitions to the third floor and the roof. Children and q boarder were sleeping on the third floor of the building, and it was only after battling smoke and flames that the tiremen were able to bring them to safety out of the burning build ing and turn them over to neighbors. The tiremen worked on the blaze under difficulties, for the intense cold and the high wind proved for midable obstacles. The cold frozc the water on their clothing and hin- dered their work, while the wind famed the flames, causing them to spread rapidly.
 The HayWardS had fire going in a fireplace in their tenement until midnight, when they retired, and Chief Noble believes that the fire place was defective and allowed smouldering embers 10 reach the partitions. After making its way to the third floor and the roof, burning emhcrs dropped through the floor in to the Birnbaum tenement on the first floor and started blaze there, Chief Noble says. The whole house was flooded with water before the flames were put out and considera- ble damage resulted from this source.
 Shortly after o'clock last night the department was called by an alarm from Box 337 for a fire in the twotenement house at 260 Hunter road owned by P. J. Dolce. When the firemen arrived here, they found the cellar and first floor of the house a roaring furnace, with the flames coming through the building in six different places. Over 1000 feet of hose had to be laid in 8 ! double line to reach the blaze, and the bumpers had 10 be pressed into service to overcome the low water pressure. The section in which the house is located is a comparatively new development, and last night; blaze was one of several in which the lack of hydrants and water pressure has greatly hampered the tiremen in battling the flames.
 After investigating, Chief Noble said that the blaze had started from an overloaded furnace. The chiei received a cut on the hand from broken glass, while one of the fire men cut his hand breaking a glass in one of the windows of the house
 Fire on Broad Street
 Slight damage resulted from a fire in the building at 6S Broad street owned by pr. Mendel Volken. helm yesterday morning when ar incinerator fire spread 10 the win, dow castings on the structure. En. zine Go. No. was called on a still abrm 10 put out the blaze.
 Steam Causes Scare
 Escaping steam caused & fire scare In the building at 1Ss Main street Saturday night when a still alarm was sent in 10 fire head. quarters. Fireman Robert Smith chauffeur for Chief William J Noble, happened by the building be, fore the arrival of the apparatus, and went into an empty tenement and turned off the steam.