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Fire Damages Brockman Home

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6
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September
Year
1955
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LABOR DAY FIRE: Firemen battle a blaze which yesterday afternoon swept through the upper half of Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Sinn’s home at 2505 Brockman Blvd. Twenty firemen fought the blaze for more than an hour.

Fire Damages Brockman Home

Fire, which yesterday afternoon swept through the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Sinn, 2505 Brockman Blvd., destroyed the entire second story and left the first floor charred and water-soaked.

Chief Ernest Heller called it the worst fire handled so far by the nearly two-year-old Stadium Blvd. station. Additional men were summoned from the downtown station.

The fire started on the roof from sparks from an incinerator.

It was first reported at 1:48 p.m, by a neighbor, Gilbert Lansky. Mrs. Sinn and her two daughters were in the house at the time. They escaped without injury.

The blaze had a head start through the dry, wood shingles by the time the first fire truck arrived. It soon broke through the roof, about two-thirds of which was eventually destroyed, and into the bedrooms. It later broke through the living room ceiling.

The remainder of the home received water and smoke damage.

Sinn said this morning that the total loss is not yet known.