Five Alarm Blaze: Toledo Fire Guts Paint Company

Clip: 426115_1_1

Year Shot: 1966 (Actual Year)

Audio: Yes

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1749

Original Film: 039-050-01

HD: N/A

Location: Toledo, Ohio

Timecode: 00:08:26 - 00:09:35

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A spectacular five-alarm blaze races through a downtown Toledo paint company building, doing an estimated $50,000 damage. The blaze started from a midnight explosion, heard by a passing patrol car. A three hour, pre-dawn battle by firefighters prevented a major disaster, since a four story paint storage building is adjacent. MS Nighttime of streams of water from fire hoses are shot high into the black sky of rising flames. The silhouettes of firemen and fire-trucks with their headlights on. Smoke and fire billowing into the dark skies. MS - Buildings totally engulfed by flames, flames shooting as high as 100 feet into the sky. Silhouettes of Firmen dragging water hoses past burning buildings.