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Delta fire in Wright's Variety Store on Main Street March 23, 1940. The fire lasted for 2 1/2 hours and the damage was estimated at $25,000. It could have been contained sooner had there been ample water pressure and fire fighting equipment.
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Originals Scanned With Creo Scitex Eversmart Jazz + Flatbed Scanner And Saved As Uncompressed Tif Imported Into Contentdm To Generate Dislplay Jpeg At 800 Pixels Across.
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Milestones of Millard
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Digital image copyright 2006, Great Basin Museum. All rights reserved.
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Great Basin Museum

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Mountain West Digital Library

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  1. Fire Fighters
  2. Fires

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