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Show Fire Devastates Home 01 Donald Duff in The largest fire in Iron County for the year 1954 brought neighbors neigh-bors from their beds at the hour of 2:10 a. m. Wednesday when the Donald Duffin residence at 370 South 900 West street was burned to the ground. According to fire chief Ralph Hanzon the blaze was started by an over-heated furnace that caught fire to a partially completed com-pleted portion of the house. Final Fi-nal figures on the blaze were estimated at a damage of approximately ap-proximately $9,000.00. Because of the late hour and the fact that the portion of the house where the blaze started was not occupied, the fire was actually out of contril before an alarm was sent in by a neighbor who saw the blaze. By the time the volunteer fire department arrived ar-rived the home was practicallv devastated. The flames consumed the all-wood home In a record time and was visible from anywhere any-where in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Duffin were fortunate for-tunate to escape the blaze, neighbors neigh-bors stated. However, they escaped es-caped with their lives and nothing noth-ing more. Furniture, bedding, clothing, electrical appliances everything went up with the fire. Firemen arrived at the scene at approximately 2:15 and were on hand until about 4:30 a. m. Mary residents were up when the fire alarm was sounded but nothing noth-ing could be done to control t' ? blaze. According to the reports Duffin had been working, piece meal, on the home for about seven years. He was building a little at a time and adding as he went along. The southern portion of the frame home was not completed at the time of the fire. The frame had been erected, the roof was on, the floor laid, and tar paper had been used on the walls. This part of the building was burned to the ground. Although the walls on two sides of the north section of the home were standing, the wood construction on the inside was completely gutted by the flames. It is reported that the structure carried no insurance. |