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SHERWIN WI LLIAI4$ PAINT 2 ALAP1ER, ?eg .239
one roll silent,
please push - stop and a half.
The Sherwin Williams Paint Ntore at 2700 W est 7th street was corpletely
gutted by flames early this morning.
The firt alarr came in at 3:030
The second alarm at 3:05. For the next hour firemen were hard at work, just trying to contain the flames and keep tner fron spread g to an ajacent tavern and finance
company (G.Ac.) in the sarre building complex.
The flames would be
beaten back ti e after ti :e, but containers of paint...thlrty and fifty gallon drums, sto .d in the rear of the building would reach the flash point and explode. Flames shot as hih as a hundred feet in the air and flmirng debries was blown across the street. 4t 4:35, the blase was t pred out, Police theories th. fire may have been started by a safe cracker. Lithe