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
Jaime 'Jaiguer' Guerrero Castrillon
Warren K. Leffler
Arthur Bastiaanse
Herbert Kofler
Kim Dong-Joon & Lee Young Woo
Donald K. Price
Erkki Laitila
Horst Faas
Eddie Adams
Dozier Mobley
Helmuth Pirath
Franz Votava
Sergey Preobrazhensky
Fred Fischer
Bela Zola
Tibor Komlós
Antoine Rulmont
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