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Hell's 50 Acres 9-alarm Fire Rages In NYC Loft Area
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keywords: Tragedies, Manhattan Loft District, Building Fire, NYFD
Synopsis: An inferno of fire guts a 5-story building in Lower Manhattan Loft District as 350 firemen respond with over 50 pieces of equipment with 3 of the brave first responders perishing when they became trapped in the smoke-filled cellar of the building...(read more)
- Date: 1960
- Duration: 00:00:57
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States






Hell's 50 Acres 9-alarm Fire Rages In NYC Loft Area
Three firemen die as a roaring inferno rages through one building in Manhattan's lower Broadway loft area and spreads to two adjoining structures. Long a breeding place for costly blazes the nine-alarm blaze is battled at night and on into the next day. Night scenes of firemen fighting a five-story building fire.
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- Newsreels: 1960 - November 21