Police and firemen extinguished a gasoline blaze at the Jack Tanner Service station at the corner of West Main and South Court Street which threatened to develop into a destructive fire late Sunday night. At 11:30 pm Night Policeman Herman May and John Kelley discovered two of the gasoline pumps at the service station on fire. The blaze spread rapidly to three other pumps nearby. The policemen summoned the fire department, and fought the blaze with hand extinguishers until firemen arrived. The blaze believed to have originated from a short circuit in electric wiring, spread to the base of the pumps and firemen risked the danger of the underground gasoline tanks exploding as they fought the fire. They were eventually able to smother the flames with a foam solution with which the department is equipped to fight gasoline and oil fires.

(Extracted  from local newspapers and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us )