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Re: [TowerTalk] Historic Propane Disastor in my Hometown (OT)

To: kd4e@verizon.net
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Historic Propane Disastor in my Hometown (OT)
From: Les Kalmus <w2lk@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: w2lk@earthlink.net
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 15:51:40 -0400
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
Me too. I have seen photos of this sort of thing in training but none 
were this bad.



doc wrote:
>> I was 13 years old when this event occurred (1973)......... In 74 I got 
>> my first ham license.
>>
>> At age 33 I became a firefighter for Kingman Fire Dept.  Several of the 
>> Firefighters I worked with were the sons of those killed in this explosion.
>>
>> The current Chief of Kingman Fire Dept was a new volunteer in 1973 and 
>> was 18 years old.   He never forgot what he witnessed that day and 
>> became an oustanding leader of safe firefighting operations for Kingman 
>> Fire Department.  It was a wonderful experience to work under his 
>> leadership..... one of the best things I have done in my life.
>>
>> http://azkrmc.com/education/history/stockton1.htm
>> (page down to July5th  1973)
>>
>> -Dave NN5K
>>     
>
> Wow!  Thanks for sharing that.
>
> Had me in tears, what an awful event.
>
>   

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