English Translation

Office d's Siaarssekretärs bonsterg4protektor Prag, den 13 hugbfmen und mähren. Eing.: 15. AUG.1940 Tgb. No.::. To Mr. 4h58 State Secretary Ss-Group Leader HAUPTSTADT PRAG. Karl Hermann Fr a n k, Praesidium. Technical Unit II. Prague. B.A.14/Brandabteilung. 5.α.d. 1n2 Nr.B.A. /40.-14 0f 8151 On the basis of your request of the 12.VIII.l940 I give you information about the fire in the paper factory R.Kubik on the l0.VIII.1l9 40 and about the precautions taken to prevent fires in the future at this company. Before the fire on the 10.VIII.1040 it was already burning three times in this year with this company ! 1./ on 24.II 1940 in the main building the ground floor, I. and II.Stock as well as the roof, 2./ on 5.vI.l940 the paper warehouse, 3./ on l8.VI.l940 a paper warehouse in the first floor in the Main building. The fire service was called to the fire on the l0.VIII.l930 by telephone at 22 o'clock 04 minutes. One minute at 10 p.m. 05 minutes, according to the register clock, 1 car syringe with 7 men from the Streschowitz branch and 1 crew car with appendage syringe and 7 men, a 7-man engine syringe and 1 prop car with the commander and photographer, as well as a passenger car with an engineer on duty, drove to the fire station. At the place of fire there were therefore 2 injections of cars, 1 crew car with appendage syringe, 1 prop car and one lighting car, as well as 1 passenger car with the total staff of 25 men, the engineer on duty, the fire director and a German technical official. At the same time, the volunteer fire brigade of Holle- schowitz, Streschowitz and Dewitz and Kobilis with transport cars and VC were working immediately on the car injections and the appendage syringe, which pressed water into 3 pipes á 2300 Lit/min. together 6.90 Lit / min. to the fire site.