{"id":179,"date":"2016-01-14T07:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-01-14T20:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T01:34:55","slug":"vintage-photos-of-winslow-oil-company-fire-in-hertford-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/vintage-photos-of-winslow-oil-company-fire-in-hertford-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Photos of Winslow Oil Company Fire in Hertford, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 14 &#8211; Evening<br \/> Added Hose &amp; Nozzle story as comment.<\/p>\n<p>January 14 &#8211; Morning<br \/>The WRAL feature Tar Heel Traveler this week took reporter Scott Mason to the town of Hertford, where fire department members recalled the Winslow Oil Company fire of January 10, 1978. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/video\/15229743\/\">Watch the video story<\/a> for numerous vintage images and even color footage of the fire. Here are some of those, as screen grabs made by myself.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what original incident information we find. Notably the fire departments that were there, and from which neighboring towns or counties. Maybe readers can help. Google also finds a couple original AP news stories. More later. Click to enlarge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-181\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-2.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-2\" width=\"779\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-3.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-3\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-7.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-186\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-7.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-7\" width=\"783\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 85px; width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-4.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-4\" width=\"780\" height=\"444\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 83px; width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-5.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-5\" width=\"785\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-180\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 84px; width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-1.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-1\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-185\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 84px; width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-6.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-6\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-8.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-187\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 83px; width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-8.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-14-hfd-8\" width=\"783\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-01-14-hfd-9.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-188\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 83px; 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Evening Added Hose &amp; Nozzle story as comment. January 14 &#8211; MorningThe WRAL feature Tar Heel Traveler this week took reporter Scott Mason to the town of Hertford, where fire department members recalled the Winslow Oil Company fire of January 10, 1978. Watch the video story for numerous vintage images and even &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/vintage-photos-of-winslow-oil-company-fire-in-hertford-1978\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Vintage Photos of Winslow Oil Company Fire in Hertford, 1978&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-photos-of-winslow-oil-company-fire-in-hertford-1978%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"179\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage Photos of Winslow Oil Company Fire in Hertford, 1978\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">6<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-photos-of-winslow-oil-company-fire-in-hertford-1978%2F&text=Vintage+Photos+of+Winslow+Oil+Company+Fire+in+Hertford%2C+1978\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"179\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage Photos of Winslow Oil Company Fire in Hertford, 1978\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">1<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-photos-of-winslow-oil-company-fire-in-hertford-1978%2F&description=Vintage+Photos+of+Winslow+Oil+Company+Fire+in+Hertford%2C+1978\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"179\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage Photos of Winslow Oil Company Fire in Hertford, 1978\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">2<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}