Charles A. Billings, Chief of the Ashburnham Fire Department, died on July 21, 1912, as the result of having swallowed a mouthful of sulphuric acid, mistaking it for water, while fighting a brush fire in Ashburnham on July 11, 1912.
Charles A. Billings, Chief of the Ashburnham Fire Department, died on July 21, 1912, as the result of having swallowed a mouthful of sulphuric acid, mistaking it for water, while fighting a brush fire in Ashburnham on July 11, 1912.
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