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I was unemployed at the time and was seventeen about and I had a job in the Ministry of supply timber control where the main thing I dealt with was wood. We had to have a special license. The office was in India buildings and there had been a terrible raid the night before and in centuries it set fire to a part it. Well, we all went down to work as usual after every raid. When we got there, my friend and I sweet talked to a fireman and told him the tale that we had a lot of money in a safe on the fourth floor, it wasn鈥檛 in a part of the building that we thought it been very burnt. Well he said 鈥淵ou can go up those stairs and get where you want to go but be quick!鈥�. The stairs were quite hot they were red hot actually and we ran up the stairs to the fourth floor and when we got to where the office had been, we realised that it had been on fire, and walking into the office where all the typewrites were, were little pools of twisted metal. But we could see where we used to sit. In the corner was the filing cabinet and we opened the cupboard and inside was the tea pot that we kept all the money in saving from the Red Cross. And we put our fingers right through the tea pot which was a twisted lump of metal. All the paper money was just a crumple of black mess. But we took the whole lump to the bank and they gave us a certain amount of money for it so all was not lost. It was a great experience. In one corner of the room, there was an umbrella hanging on a hook. We鈥檝e just seen the ribs of the umbrella hanging there. And my friend鈥檚 glasses which were just the metal bits all fused together. We managed to get out in one piece but it was a terrible experience.

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