New York Has Second Serious Rubber Fire in Month
More than 200 New York firemen fought for three hours in bitterly cold weather, February 3rd, before controlling a fire that caused nearly $100,000 damage to a sponge-rubber fabricating plant. The fire, of unexplained origin, was the second costly blaze in a rubber fabricating plant within thirty days; a five-alarm fire on January 2nd menaced the Columbus Circle area and caused half a million loss.
The properties involved were the General Sponge Corporation, occupying the ground floor of two three-story buildings at 1195-97 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. Eight families, occupying apartments over the rubber company, were driven to the street.
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