Alert as children hurt in roof fall.(News)

From: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) | Date: June 9, 2004 | Copyright information

A fire chief issued a warning today after three children plunged through a garage roof.

The youngsters - two girls and a boy all aged about ten - fell about ...

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