IN THE BLOG

That photo took on a life of its own. At first it was on the front page of the Seattle Times the day of the fire, Friday October 11, 1974 and those of us in it were all smiles as you might expect. We were all running around getting extra newspaper copies for relatives etc., after all, how often would you expect to have your picture on the front page of a major newspaper in your life? I thought the photographer was from the insurance company when he was snapping photos at the scene, none of us knew he was from the press, and we were nameless in the caption. A lot of ice cream was supplied by the four of us - a fire department tradition when your picture is in the paper or you are on the TV news ...

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