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but this difficulty was soon overcome as water pressui increased and the fire was brought under control and extinguished with ten deliveries from 3 motor pumps pumping from hydrants.

23rd August, 1956—

At 3.15 a.m. on 23rd August, a fire broke out at No. 161, Ki Lung Street, Kowloon. Two fire appliances responded immediately, and on receipt of the third alarm four minutes later, additional fire appliances and ambulances responded. On arrival, the Fire Brigade found that the first floor of a three-storey tenement house was well alight and flames were shooting out from the verandah, threatening to involve the upper floors. An immediate search of the premises revealed the badly burnt bodies of two children on the front verandah. A Chinese woman was fatally injured when she jumped from the first floor before the arrival of the Fire Brigade. The woman died after admission to Kowloon Hospital.

12th November, 1956–

The Fire Brigade received a call to a fire involving a number of squatter huts on the east side of Tin Hau Temple Hill in the Causeway Bay district. Four appliances responded and brought the fire under control about an hour and a half later. The huts, numbering approximately 50, were used as dwellings and covered an area of about 16,000 square feet. Most of the huts were damaged by fire. Two children were burnt to death before the arrival of the Fire Brigade. 9th December, 1956-

At 11.45 a.m. on December 9th, the Fire Brigade received a call to a fire at the Kwong Man Loong Fire- cracker Factory in Pak Tai Street, Kowloon. Seven appliances and one fire boat responded. The Brigade were handicapped to a certain extent by the continual explosions of gun-powder, but were successful in confining the fire to the factory and bringing it under control at 12.45 p.m. The premises consisted of a group of one two-storey building and 14 single- storey structures used for the storage and manufacture

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