Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-30 | Page 11 | Fire Damages Police Garage

FIRE DAMAGES POLICE GARAGE I Three Radio Prowl Cars Badi Bad Bad- nt I 1 4 ly Iy Burned Trusty Injured Three radio prowl cars ears were dam dam- aged a police garage was nearly destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de and a jail trusty was burned in a fire in the rear of the police station station station sta sta- tion Thursday morning Damage was wa estimated at 2000 The trust trusty Clifford Pearson 19 19 a transient servi g 60 days for petty pelt larceny was pouring gasoline from froma a can into a radio patrol car standing with two others in the garage The three machines were hooked up to a battery charger Patrolman Sherman Falkenrath explained ant and the current was coursing through a. a all parts of the cars The gasoline burst into flames when the can apparently touched th the car body Patrolman Falkenrath said The flaming liquid spilled on Pearson Pearson Pear Pear- son son causing a second degree burn t this to his hs leg and ran over the garage garage garag floor noor Flames immediately filled the garage garage garage ga ga- ga- ga rage and spread over the three cars Firemen from headquarters station tation a afew afew few yards from the garage extin extinguished the flames The g garage interior was burned two cars cars' were badly damaged am and the back end of ot the third was slightly slight slight- ly burned