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Las Vegas, Nevada Review Journal Sept. 34, 1946 ns | htl Is, )le til be >g ;ie id er m$ H is s Is H p n fe Garage Gutted as Tosses Gasoline I A pail of gasoline flung on a red hot weld, today turned a 1941 Buick sedan into a flaming torch, destroying two other automobiles and completely gu™ng the garage workshop of the Mam Auto Parts company, 319 Worth Main. The blaze, which was reported shortly after 11 a.m., swept through the workshop m a matter of seconds when Elmer Peters-of Clifton, Idaho, a customer at the garage, mistook a pail of line for water and tossed the contents on the rear fender of his car as a precaution against neat from the offender that was being welded. City firemen, headed by Captain C. D. Williams, were hampered in their efforts to bring the blaze under control by a temporary failure of waiter supply from adj acent hydrants. Note: Chief advises there was no temporary- failure of water. Troulbe was stem was worn on fire hydrant and their wrench'would not fit until they got another wrench. AMF 9-25-46
