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Well, I noticed that there are great many windows in the house. How is it that so many people were trapped there so quickly? Well, this is the circumstance that often develops in the far of this nature. The heat builds up and eventually a window cracks open.

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It provides the auction, which is a necessary ingredients for an explosion. And this develops into a flash throughout the whole building. And that presumably is how the building became totally involved now in terms of the taking of human life, is this one of the worst you've

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had in san Francisco in a long time? This is one of the worst we've had involving residential structures. Uh huh. We had a similar loss of life earlier in the week on Wednesday, in which three persons were killed at a fire. But I would say that

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this is one of the worst as far as we've had for a very long time in the residential occupancy. Yes, the house is rather typical san Francisco house. It's stucco in the front and wood in the back and when you look in the front of it,

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except for the windows, you'd hardly know there was a fire on the other hand, the back is very gutted. It does this present a problem for you people? Yes, it does. It presents presents a terrific problem of entry, particularly in the situation of this type where

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we do our utmost to save life. Ah Fire. The magnitude of the fire was in the rear of the building and when it flashed, it involved the whole structure and it was just almost impossible to get in until we could ventilate the building. It started on

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the second floor, in the area of the kitchen, toward the rear of the building, and as far as we can determine, it started in a day bed located near the kitchen area. Had it been burning for some time, it had been burning for a considerable length

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of time, involving a build up of a tremendous amount of heat, which eventually resulted into what we call a backdraft blew out. The windows involved the whole structure.