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FBU keeps memories of Cheapside comrades alive
Conrad Landin in Glasgow
FIREFIGHTERS vowed to never forget the service’s worst ever peacetime disaster as they gathered yesterday to mark their trade union’s centenary.
On March 28 1960, an explosion at a Glasgow whisky warehouse killed 14 firefighters and five members of the Glasgow Salvage Corps who were tackling a blaze at the scene.
The warehouse, in Cheapside Street near the city centre, contained over a million gallons of whisky and rum.
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