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"These sixteen: The finalists in yesterday's Kingston and St. Andrew leg of the Miss Jamaica 1974 Beauty Contest (left to right): Pauline Mataleen, Toni Heffes, Myrna Williams, Madge Holman, Dorna Brown, Yvonne Grant, Lenore Atkins, Andrea Lyon,…

"Remains of the gutted garment manufacturing establishment at 15 Belmont Road, Kingston."

A residential property that has been completely destroyed by fire.

"Fire of unknown origin gutted this building owned by the United Fruit Company (Ja.). Ltd. at Bowden Hill in St. Thomas last Monday. The occupants, Yallahs Secondary School bursar Louis Robinson and his wife Rose, who is in charge of the Morant Bay…

An entertainer performing a stunt with two sticks of fire, where she attempts to "swallow" the fire.

A K.S.A.C. Fire Department firetruck preparing to go on a run.

"A fire truck from K.S.A.C fire brigade stands ready outside the station as firefighters prepare for duty."

"The fire extinguisher [arrow] were disappearing too fast from the buses so JOS electrician designed a system which allowed the driver to push a button near his seat and discharge extinguisher on the turbine charger, at the rear of the Nationals."

"A section of one of the six unoccupied houses on Sixth and Seventh Streets in Trench Town, which were gutted by fires early yesterday morning."

"Flames bellowing from the upper storey of this multi-storey building under construction at the Kingston Waterfront Thursday night."