November 17, 1973

Firefighters battle house trailer fire

       Two firefighters from the White River Township Fire Department battle intense heat while containing fire to a house trailer in Wheel Estates trailer court near Marion-Johnson County Line Road early Saturday. Four pieces of firefighting equipment and 19 firefighters reported to the scene of the pre-dawn blaze at the vacated E. R. Miller residence at lot 134 in Wheel Estates. The fire caused an estimated $10,000 in damages, destroying the house trailer. However, firefighters prevented the blaze from spreading to nearby house trailers. The fire was reported to White River township volunteer firefighters shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday by Leonard R. Allison and his mother, Mrs. Patricia N. Bowermaster.  (Reprinted with permission of the Daily Journal)
 

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