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Drama
Hulme bike ride - Woodcock square to Clopton walk - 1994
Stretford's "white watch" was one of several fire crews called to a gas explosion in Bonsall Street, Hulme in February 1996. They arrived to discover the victim, Gwen Harding, trapped in her blazing fourth floor flat. Vandals had ripped out gas pipes in the flat below, causing an explosion which ripped through the maisonettes above. In the hair raising rescue that followed, officers from Stretford had to climb out and around the shell of the flat before crawling in to drag Mrs Harding out. She survived the explosion and has now fully recovered from her ordeal.