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Show Fire Loss Estimated $10,000 To Wm. Freeman Property tigate and found that the sound was coming from their own car, parked south of the house. She opened the car door and the interior inter-ior burst into flames. The local fire department was called and extinguished the blaze. The interior inter-ior of the car was completely gutted gut-ted out, and all of the glass broken. Insurance investigators estimate that the cost of replacement will equal or exceed the present value of the car. It was a 1950 Chev- Fires of three different types and increasing degrees of seriousness serious-ness occurred in Pleasant Grove and vicinity recently. The first blaze got started at about 8 p.m. Saturday night, when burning trash from an incinerator back of Christensen's Store blew against a frame garage to the rear of the Dean Smith property. Prompt action ac-tion on the part of Pleasant Grove's fireman prevented any appreciable ap-preciable loss. At about 2 a.m. Sunday morning, morn-ing, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. West were awakened by the continuous sounding of an automobile horn. Mrs. West went outside to inves- rovlet delux sedan. A fire of unknown origin which caused an estimated loss of $10,000 broke out at about 1 a.m. Wednesday Wednes-day morning at the farm of William Will-iam Freeman, 905 North, Sixth West in Manila. Officer John Huntsman, who was traveling between Pleasant Grove and American Fork noticed the red glow from the flames and radioed the alarm. The Pleasant Grove Fire Department responded; but the run to the fire was delayed approximately ten minutes by a slow-moving freight train across highway 91. When the local firemen fire-men reached the scene of the fire the flames, fanned by a stiff north wind, had spread to adjacent structures struc-tures and was practically out of control. The Pleasant Grove firemen, fire-men, who were assisted by the Fire Department from American Fork, battled the flames for several sever-al hours, and prevented the fire from spreading to the Freeman residence nearby. The loss, according to fireman Harold Walker, included the following: fol-lowing: a milk house, chicken coop, dairy barn, implement shed, 10 tons of hay, one cow, three calves, and a number of chickens. The loss was partially covered by insurance. |