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This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department called Camden Fire Department: The Fires of the Summer of 2011. On this and other pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey. On
the very hot day of July 10, 1933, yet another near conflagration
occurred at the C.B. Coles & Sons lumberyard on Kaighn's Point at
the Delaware River. Five alarms from Box 31 were transmitted for a
rapidly spreading fire involving an entire block bounded by Front
Street, South
Second Street, Kaighn
Avenue and Mechanic
Street. Before the blaze could be controlled, the lumberyard, a
warehouse, a row of homes, a stable, a garage, and two colonial houses
on Front Street were destroyed. Two firefighters were injured and
twenty-three persons were left homeless. Damage exceeded $300,000. As with the web page covering other Camden Fire Department events, if you can identify anyone that I've missed, please e-mail me. (I'm terrible at at names and faces). Phil
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| Camden Courier-Post - July 11, 1933 | |
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| C.B.
Coles & Sons Lumber Co. - Kaighn's Point - Knight
Street - Front Street - Mechanic
Street Atlantic Avenue - Kaighn Avenue - South Second Street - Margaret Dolson - Robert Dolson |
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| Engine Company 8 - George Tucker - Charles Voll | |
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| Dr. Arthur L. Stone - Mrs. Marion Richards | |
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| Henry
C. Coles - John Bircher - John
H. Lennox - James
H. Long - Harry Hertline Joseph Novack - E.H. Stewart |
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| Camden
Clown Club - James Shay - Alice Williams - Alice Shay - William Shay Stanley Berthelot - Henry Small - James Rice - William Haines - Anna Parker - Mary Numbers |
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| Engine
Company 2 - Engine
Company 7 - William
Hopkins - Felix
Bendzyn Dennis Block - C.E. Wells - Howe Street - Cedar Street - Wiley Mission |
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| Clarence
Madden - John
Mulligan - George
Garner - John
H. Lennox Engine Company 4 - Engine Company 5 |
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Mrs.
Mary Numbers Mrs. Anna Parker C,B. Coles & Sons Company Front Street Mechanic Street Atlantic Avenue |
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| E.H. Stewart - Joseph C. Maull - Dr. W.S. Thompson - Rachel Maull - William Champion - Ebenzer Toole Harry Chambers | |
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| This photo had been owned by Camden Police Detective Clifford Carr |
| HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA DAILY NEWS - July 11, 1933 |
| $250,000 FIRE
AT CAMDEN, N. J.
CAMDEN, N.J., July 11 — Damage was estimated at more than $250,000 today after a survey of the ruins of a lumber yard, two factory-buildings, and 13 houses, razed by a fire, which demolished an entire city block late yesterday. Two firemen, William Hopkins and Felix Bendzyn, were in critical conditions in Cooper hospital of injuries they suffered when they fell from a burning building. Hopkins sustained a broken spine, while Block received several fractures and internal injuries. Twenty persons we re made homeless by the blaze, which started in the back yard of a private dwelling, and fanned by a strong wind from the Delaware river, swept across the C. B. Coles & Sons lumber yard. |
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