Pwenner: Another photo of the fire at J.P. Karn's on S. Maryland Avenue in July 1963. Although the fire company did an excellent job of extinguishing this fire, Clayton Dalton wrote: "I wasn't born yet but my mom had an antique shop in the building, late 70's. Most of the building was still accessible although much of it probably wasn't really safe for us as young teenagers to be running around in. Even then, you could still smell burnt wood." See the 1953 700 series American LaFrance apparatus when...

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Another photo of the fire at J.P. Karn's on S. Maryland Avenue in July 1963. Although the fire company did an excellent job of extinguishing this fire, Clayton Dalton wrote: "I wasn't born yet but my mom had an antique shop in the building, late 70's. Most of the building was still accessible although much of it probably wasn't really safe for us as young teenagers to be running around in. Even then, you could still smell burnt wood." See the 1953 700 series American LaFrance apparatus when...

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== Summary ==
Another photo of the fire at J.P. Karn's on S. Maryland Avenue in July 1963. Although the fire company did an excellent job of extinguishing this fire, Clayton Dalton wrote:
"I wasn't born yet but my mom had an antique shop in the building, late 70's. Most of the building was still accessible although much of it probably wasn't really safe for us as young teenagers to be running around in. Even then, you could still smell burnt wood."

See the 1953 700 series American LaFrance apparatus when it was still red.

(From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission)

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