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HOUSTON FIRE
MAN ON CAMERA
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Two persons remain hospitalized in serious condition
with injuries suffered yesterday when a 14 inch gas
main ruptured and burst into flames in a residential
area in North Houston.
13 homes in the 25 to 35-thousand-dollar price range
were destroyed...and many others were damaged. Eight
persons were injured...including five firemen..over-
come by the intense heat and smoke. The flames raged
over a four block area in the Greenridge North sub-
division. Many of the residents thought a plane had
crashed in the neighborhood. One man rushed home from
work to make certain his wife and children were safe.
They were. But his house, in his words, "was ashes,
bricks and nothing." The gas main, fed by eight hundred
pounds of natural gas per square inch, roared unchecked
for an hour and a half before workmen could close the
valves. The heat was so intense firemen had to fight
the blaze in shifts. The fire melted the asphalt roofs(MORE)
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Houston Fire], script, September 10, 1969, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1214435/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.