Six-Alarm Fire Causes $200,000 Loss
The largest and most spectacular fire that has visited Pittsburgh, Pa., in many months, swept through a large five and ten cent store in the heart of the high value business district. The fire apparently started in the store basement from some unknown cause. Six alarms and a special call brought out eighteen engine companies, four truck companies and one squad company to the fire, with a fire fighting force of 140 men. Nineteen fire streams were used in extinguishing the fire, which included one water-tower stream, three turret streams, one three-way Siamese deluge stream, and one hydrant stream.
Squad Company No. 1 from the down town business district, answering the special call, spread ninety-one salvage covers over merchandise on the first and second floors of the Shulte-United Stores, adjoining the burning building, which structure back in 1937 was swept by a five-alarm $50,000 fire.
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