Word: pipemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile pipemen fought into the flaming lobby with battering streams of water. They edged into the heart of the fire, heads down, coughing, while other firemen in the rear sent protective streams cascading over them. The fire-apparently started by a short circuit in a false ceiling above the Silver Lounge-died) almost as abruptly as it began. In half an hour the blackened, sodden lobby was free of flame...
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