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EXPLOSION - 1
FIREMEN
Firemen hedd for the fourth floor of the Texoma Building, at 512 South Akard in Dallas, where an explosion in the employee's cafeteria has sent one man to a hospital. It began to get a little warm as the morning wore on, so Bill Neaves, a maintenance man in the building, reached through a little access door to turn on the
air conditioning.
MEN TALKING
When he did, there was a loud explos-
ion, and Neaves fell backward with burns over his face and right forearm. The cafeteria's operator, Kelly Rhine, in the center, said it sounded like a couple of sticks of dynamite. He says Kayd he was looking straight at Neaves when he was pitched backward about 10-feet by the blast. Mainten- ance Jeff Foreman diagnoses that the air condit- ioning compressor was shorted, and the electrical terminal box exploded when the switch was thrown. 4 _ &,/ e% 7efLN- A