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Fire Chief First to Report FireFire Chief Joe Munger, on a busman’s holiday, nipped in the bud what could have heen a severe property-damaging blaze Sunday afternoon when he happened to glance out the window of his residence at 931 Eighth.The chief saw smoke pouring from a garage at the rear of the Jack Spurzem residence, 920 Fast Sixth, and did what any citizen would do—he called the fire department and raced to the scene on foot. At least three other calls on the blaze were received at the station within moments of the chief's call.Two fire trucks answered the call at 2:12 p. m. and found the garage enveloped in flames. Chief Munger. in an attempt to contain the blaze, kept the garage doors closed until firemen arrived.By the time the trucks got to the scene, the flames were threatening the garage next door, owned by Roscoe Buzzard. 918 East Sixth. Firemen discovered that a car was parked in the Buzzard garage when they smashed a window, and with flames already attacking the roof and walls of the building, had to drag away a locked auto which was blocking the garage driveway before they could break the lock on the door and remove the vehicle in the garage.Before the door could be opened, heat had cracked the w indshield and caused some paint damage to the car in the garage, a state-owned auto. Munger said. Flames had spread to the east wall and roof of the Buzzard garage.Cause of the blaze was undetermined. the chief said. It apparently started in one corner of the Spurzem garage, he stated. The building was totally destroyed by the flames, firemen reported. No one was at home at either residence when the fire started, Munger said.Smoke and flames were visible to fans attending the Helena-trailed 3-2 in the fourth. Buck I Webster tripled in the sixth with lt;two on base. The prison team led i going into the bottom of the sixth. 6-2. Drews homered for t Deer Lodge in the second. *The line score: \Deer Lodge 210 012 1—7 12 0 lt;Burgermeister 001 105 x—7 10 0 *Casey and Brandt; B. Webster and S. Webster. IThe game was called at the end r of six and a half innings when I the prison team had to leave for lt;Deer Lodge. !Cathedral Hi Gridmen To Get Gear ■Cathedral high school football lettermen will be issued equipment Wednesday from 3 to 5 p. m., Coach Tom Kelly an-i nounced today. New candidates! can draw equipment Thursday from 3 to 5 p. m., at the school.The first workout for the squad is set for Memorial park at 7.30 a. m. Saturday.New head coach Kelly, a former Carroll star, was optimistic— with some reservations — about the coming season. “We should \ fare better this season as the boys have more experience,” he said.The Greenies posted a 1-5 conference record last year, beating) Anaconda Central in the final game of the season.Kelly has 17 returning lettermen as a nucleus for his 1958 squad. Six are seniors, seven juniors, and three won their letters as sophomores.First conference test is tentatively scheduled with Anaconda Central either Friday, Sept. 19. or Saturday. Sept. 20. A non-con-1 ference game with the Great Falls Central junior varsity is slated for Saturday. Sept. 13.Billings baseball game at Legion field. Witnesses said that flames shot 25 to 30 feet in the air in j the early stages of the fire.Damage to the Buzzard garage was confined to the east wall and roof.
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Helena Independent Record
Helena, Montana, US
Mon, Aug 18, 1958
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