PARKED AUTOS AND TRAFFIC JAMS HINDER PITTSBURGH FIREMEN
Large Fire in Business District of Pittsburgh Galls for Four Alarms Torn Up Streets Also Interfere with Apparatus
WHILE Pittsburgh fire fighters were hampered in their work by traffic jams, parked automobiles and torn up streets in the vicinity of the fire to which they were called on May 8, they made a hard but successful fight in controlling and extinguishing one of the quickest and most spectacular night fires that has visited the downtown business district for a long while. Flames, starting from some unknown but mysterious cause, swept through the seven floors of an eight-story business block located at 810-812-814-81O Penn Avenue in the wholesale clothing, dry goods and furniture district of the downtown business section of the city on Saturday evening, May 8, causing damage by smoke and water to adjoining structures and for a time threatening to sweep the entire block between Eighth and Ninth Streets.
If you are a current subscriber,login hereto access this content.
If you would like to become a subscriber, please visit ushere.
