NAPA store burns

Friday, February 25, 2011

As firefighters continue to battle the blaze at NAPA Auto parts, in the 300 block of E. Walnut St., local law enforcement has their hands full, trying to keep bystanders a safe distance away while acetylene tanks popped with a clanging sound. A two-block radius was evacuated and evacuees sent to the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center. By 6 p.m. it was clear that the NAPA building would be a total loss, and the fire had extended to the next building to the west.

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They said they saved the buildings to the west.I could hear the tanks explode. And they did not evacuate anything except some of the people on the square. I live within a block and we were not evacuated.

-- Posted by sam floor on Fri, Feb 25, 2011, at 7:44 PM
hope no one gets hurts

-- Posted by JW12 on Fri, Feb 25, 2011, at 7:58 PM
Didn't that building burn once before when it was an auto parts store? I recall a fire in October 1971 on East Walnut at a place called M and M Auto Parts. Seems like it was the same building, but could have been farther to the west.

-- Posted by perenoel1127 on Sat, Feb 26, 2011, at 5:04 AM

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