Three Firemen Killed at Fire
Damage was estimated at $50,000 following a fire in which two firemen were killed when their fire truck overturned while enroute to a blaze at Nashua, N. H., on Jan. 13. A volunteer died in a fall down an elevator shaft while running to the scene.
Capt. Alfred J. La Plante, 40, and Fireman George McCaughney, 30, were crushed to death when the apparatus collided with an auto, grazed a bus and overturned. Some 20 bus passengers were treated for minor injuries.
Clarence Whitten, 42, a call fireman, responding to the general alarm blaze in a four-story brick apartment and residential building in the city’s business district, fell down an elevator shaft at a textile mill where he worked and was killed.
Three persons were carried down ladders to safety by firemen from their second-floor apartment as thick smoke drove some 40 others into the street.
