Fire! 25,000 Homeless After $25,000,000 Blaze
Fire! 25,000 Homeless After $25,000,000 Blaze
Clip: 350594_1_1
Year Shot: 1950
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1545
Original Film: 023-350-01
HD: N/A
Location: Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
Timecode: 00:03:36 - 00:04:50
Fire! 25,000 Homeless After $25,000,000 Blaze Fanned by a sixty-hour wind, flames roar through this industrial town in Quebec. Thousands are homeless and the damage runs to $20,000,000, with 350 buildings leveled in the wake of the raging inferno. Spectacular scenes from the stricken heart of a stricken city. One sentence of audio, "A grim monument to fire." On May 6, 1950, Rimouski was the theater of a terrible fire ... known as "la nuit rouge" (French for the red night ...)