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H & D Paper Products Co.
110 Webb Street
April 20-21, 1969
Originally posted 4/22/11
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| CLICK to enlarge (Photo by John Mongillo, Jr.) |
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| Last week, the website featured the back-to-back fires at Corey's Lumber Co. and Howard Johnson's. Exactly ten years to the day earlier, on a quiet Sunday evening, one of its most spectacular blazes in Hamden Fire Department history struck the H&D Paper Products Co. at 110 Webb Street. The loss was estimated at $500,000.
A police investigation later revealed that the fire was started by two small boys who were playing with matches. The fire building was located only a couple of hundred feet from the rear of the Merritt Street Station 6, which was still in service. Almost all Hamden career and volunteer companies responded, as well as apparatus from North Haven.
These photographs and several newspaper articles provide graphic evidence as to the severity of the blaze.
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| April 20, 1969 - H&D Paper Products Co., 110 Webb Street (Photo by John Mongillo, Jr.) |
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| CLICK to enlarge (Photo by John Mongillo, Jr.) |
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| CLICK to enlarge (Photo by Whitney Legal Photo) |
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| View from State Street, south of Merritt Street (Photo by John Mongillo, Jr.) |
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All of the newspaper articles below were provided courtesy of G. Donald Steele.
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| © The New Haven Register - Monday, April 21, 1969 |
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| © The New Haven Register - Monday, April 21, 1969 |
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| Firefighter Fred Knudsen wetting down hot spots - CLICK to enlarge (Photo by Ed Doiron, Sr.) |
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| 4/22/69 - Overhauling - Hamden firefighters on Ladder 1 - CLICK to enlarge (Photo by Ed Doiron, Sr.) |
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| © The Hamden Chronicle - Thursday, April 24, 1969 |
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| © The New Haven Journal-Courier - April 22, 1969 |
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