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Fire Fighters Douse Flames Downtown

Date: 04 15 1950
Description: Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district.
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Building on Fire

Date: 1931
Description: Groups of fire fighters work to put out a fire in winter. Smoke is billowing out the windows and covering the facade. A building on the far left has a sign...
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Old Nora General Store Destroyed by Fire

Date: 03 21 1960
Description: Firemen douse smoldering ruins of the Old Nora General Store on Highway 12-18 at BN and Nora Road in the Town of Cottage Grove.
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Water Avenue Fire

Date: 12 31 1990
Description: Firefighters battle a fire that engulfed Kruk's Drug Store and Hansen's Department Store. The pharmacy was to change ownership the next day.
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Fire on Wabash Avenue

Date: 01 28 1918
Description: Streams of water from fire hoses are trained into the upper windows of a storefront which is encased in thick ice. A written description of this photograph...

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