The son of a firefighter who died in a warehouse blaze 50 years ago said his dad was killed as the result of the toss of a coin.
Derek Hooper’s father William and six colleagues died while tackling a fire at Glasgow’s Kilbirnie Street on August 25, 1972. The team had gone in to rescue their trapped colleague James Rook when the fire ignited the hardwood ceilings on the first floor,
causing a huge “flashover”
