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Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-03 | Page 1 | Homes Razed in Logan, Provo Fires

Type issue
Date 1952-03-03
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Homes Razed in Logan, Provo Fires
Type article
Date 1952-03-03
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text Homes Razed In Logan a Provo Fires Scaling ladders to the second story Provo firemen rescued two women one of them in a leg cast following a fire which gutted an apartment house Sunday Three other residents all dwelling dwelling dwell dwell- ing on the ground floor escaped uninjured from the blaze started by explosion of a bottle of gaso gaso- line In another fire Sunday a home near Logan was completely destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de by a blaze blazE- blamed on defective wiring The two occupants occupants occupants pants of the home escaped without without without with with- out injury but a Logan fireman suffered burns about the neck when the blazing roof caved in LOGAN Special An early morning fire near here Sunday completely destroyed the home and belongings and caused the death of two pets of the Delbert Hansen family Ivo No Berg chief of Logan Cache Fire Department estimated Monday Mon Ion Monday day that the damage to the home a total loss amounted to about While none of the occupants was injured Lt Vi William liam Pehrson of the fire department suffered burns about the neck when the roof caved in while he was searching searching searching search search- ing for possible victims At the time of the fire only l Mr r. r Hansen and a daughter Gayle 10 were in the dwelling a room four frame house The girl turned in the fire alarm after she ran two blocks footed bare through the snow to a neighbors neighbor's home PROVO Special Five persons persons persons per per- sons escaped uninjured two of them in dramatic rescues by firemen firemen fire fire- men when an explosive fire gutted part of an apartment See Page 2 Column 2 1 l 1 L x t i ii n i S S S L 9 p r i 0 o Y l. l fr G r s' s f ti 1 Y f 1 S 1 k 5 I 5 r r Y L- L S r r l ew y yv ii ri ihl w If r w J Only Charred Skeleton Remains After Fire A blackened skeleton of of charred walls and roof I timbers was all that remained of this Logan I I II I I Fires Play Havoc Logan Provo I Continued from Crom Page One I house at S. S 2nd West here Sunday about pm p.m. Firemen using ladders rescued Mrs 1 Pearl Bolin 49 incapacitated incapacitated incapacitated by a heavy cast from a previous previous previous pre pre- leg fracture from a second- second floor window where she called for help Another second floor occupant I Mrs 1 Roda Thomas suffered a minor hand cut in breaking a window to escape to a roof porch where firemen rescued her herThe The fire originated in a downstairs downstairs downstairs down down- stairs apartment occupied by Mr 1 and Mrs 1 Wilford Lauder and a year old daughter when a bottle of gasoline ignited from a water heater We Ve had just finished dinner when the whole kitchen and apartment suddenly burst into flames I snatched our child and ran from the back door and my wife wiCe ran out the front way vay Mr 1 Lauder told firemen Damage to the frame structure owned by Mrs 1 Mark 1 Roberts was estimated at 2500 plus loss to contents home gutted by fire Sunday Occupants were uninjured but hut two pets died in the blaze
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