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Hanszen Commons Fire, June 1975

I’d noticed these images before but as you can see they’re slides, which are a bit awkward to deal with, so I just left them and moved on with my tasks. Yesterday, though, I had enough time to go back and scan them (apologies for the sloppy scans, by the way–I was having trouble with Photoshop). As soon as I got a better look I was struck by how frightening fire really is. This first one is almost the scariest, with those flames shooting out into an otherwise normal scene:

 

 

Here’s the aftermath:

We can’t thank firemen enough.

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