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1964 fire featured exploding paint cans

Flames shot an estimated 100 feet in the air.

Smoke could be seen 25 miles away.

Firefighters had to watch out for falling power lines and for paint cans that “exploded and rocketed out of the main building,” the Clovis News-Journal reported.

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