cular and difficult fire, which was raised to 4th alarm category. Two persons were burnt to death and 6 others seriously injured. The cause of fire was mishandling of highly volatile rubber solution.
Canton Road, Kowloon
72. A prompt report by a watchman on 5th June, 1962, which brought the Fire Service to a raw cotton fire in a godown area in Canton Road a few minutes after 10 p.m. prevented what might otherwise have been a conflagration in this highly congested section of Kowloon. The fire was extinguished in 20 minutes at a cost of $20,000. The value at risk in the godown ran into millions.
Queen's Road Central, City of Victoria
73. Just before midnight on 25th August, 1962, a 12 year old boy knocked over a kerosene stove in a tenement house in Queen's Road Central. The resultant fire spread with great rapidity through the building of origin, jumped across a scavenging lane, set alight another tenement building in Lower Lascar Row, and on the arrival of the first attending appliances had spread to the balcony of yet a third block of tenements. In this highly congested area situated on the lower mid levels of the City of Victoria, a very serious fire situation developed before reinforce- ments from as far away as North Point could be brought to the scene. The tenements affected were used as domestic dwellings, shops and for the manufacture of footwear, metal shades and electrical equipment. One person died, 6 were severely injured, 27 rescued and some 800 made homeless.
Gillies Avenue, Kowloon
74. A little after 9 a.m. on 21st August, 1962, a fire broke out on the ground floor of a 6-storey R.C.C. tenement type building used for the manufacture of spectacle frames, a private school and domestic dwellings. The fire, fed by large stocks of highly inflammable plastic materials, spread rapidly from the ground floor, blocking the primary escape route for the children attending school on the upper floors. The hardwood smoke stop door delayed fire travel long enough for the majority of the children to evacuate under the supervision of teachers by the secondary escape route. Members of the Service led the remain- ing 35 children to safety.
San Shan Road, Kowloon
75. At 2 a.m. on the morning of 8th August, 1962, fire broke out on the 5th floor of a modern 9-storey factory block in Kowloon. The
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