Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to fire inspectors, the blaze was set on top of 12,000 pounds of unused paper by a person or persons who entered a side door into a basement folding room in the 14 Plympton St. building. Most of the damage resulted from water poured on the burning paper by firemen and a sprinkler system...
Although investigators have no leads as to who might be responsible for the blaze, there were reports from passers-by that several children were seen around the building shortly before the alarm connected with the sprinkling system went...
...eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden jets, ignited and enveloped Jean in fire. Chortling make-believe satisfaction a moment before, the film extras now screamed in dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like a singed chicken. At first, I didn...
...estimated $750 worth of damage, and held up WHRB's broadcasting for three hours early yesterday morning. But neither the H.D.C.'s performances nor "Deathwatch" whose the H.D.C.'s nor "Death Watch" whose sets were being prepared by the Club, will have to be cancelled because of the blaze...
...fire, which set off the building's sprinkler system, was discovered at 4:20 a.m. by operating engineers Ralph Stetson and David Craige of the Buildings and Grounds Department. Two Cambridge deputy fire chiefs who arrived on the scene ascribed the probable cause of the blaze to "disposal of cigarettes...