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Night Fire and Ghosts Bend a Town's Watery Pumper Tale
In 1905 a village fire linked to a midsummer storm tests a volunteer brigade with a hand pumper. The pumper shares a shed with a hearse near the cemetery where locals claim witching hour ghosts roam. A late night mishap delays the response as Al Timmerman’s team careers west then redials east, damaging the nozzle and leaving the blaze to buckets on bicycles.
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