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Fire chief and aide respond to fatal hardware store blast
Fire Chief John QC Nygren and Assistant Chief Thomas Clemens arrived minutes after an explosion at a hardware store on Cass Street. Proprietor James Pennuto, 60, was killed. he had run the shop for 27 years while cutting a hole in a turpentine drum with a gasoline blow torch. Spectator photographer Frank Dolasin captured the scene.
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