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Everything lay under an acrid fog of blue smoke let off by the torches and flares. The assembled marching firemen. Cars hanging with streamers, pasted with signs. Banner-strung lamp posts. Photographers. Motorcycle policemen. Loudspeaker trucks. The crowds were restless. It was time...
According to firemen on the scene, the blaze started in the basement corridor outside the band room. Rising along the stairway, it spread through the entire building, creating extensive damage on the second and third floors. Most of the interior of the Club, in the words of one fireman, was "gutted...
Many of the drums, including the smaller of the big drums, had been damaged before they could be saved. Destruction in this case appears to have been caused more by the general rush of firemen combatting the blaze in the basement than by the fire...
Representatives from the Cambridge Red Cross disaster squad, led by Edward Crane '35, arrived shortly after the blaze broke out to assist units from the Salvation Army in passing out coffee and doughnuts to firemen chilled by cold water and a 49 degree temperature...
...firemen were injured, although several men slightly overcome by smoke were administered oxygen...