Car Fire Downtown Shelby

May 16th, 2006 1:50 AM-
Firefighters were again called out to another vehicle fire. This time it was an older Cadillac car that was parked in the First State Bank parking lot behind Rainbow Conoco. A Toole County Deputy spotted the burning car and radioed that the vehicle was burning too hard for a simple fire extinguisher to handle. When NBMC arrived shortly after, the car fire flames were about 10 feet high and a small explosion was heard as we snaped photos. The car was far enough from most structures as to not endanger them but it was somewhat close to a Three Rivers data handling building. Firefighters had the blaze knocked down fast and the fire was out in about 15 minutes. As stated above, the flames were much higher than seen in the below photo. The photo taken then did not turn out well enough to publish. This photo was taken from Main St. by Rainbow Conoco.
NBMC Shelby photo
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