01 January, 1956
A child is being rescued by the fire brigade from a burning house in Chelsea, London, while the mother looks on.
Louis Garnade
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1956 Photo Contest
Helmuth Pirath
Antoine Rulmont
Sergey Preobrazhensky
Fred Fischer
Bela Zola
Franz Votava
Tibor Komlós
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