New Orleans History -- Lake Pontchartrain
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1969 Fire on Oak Street

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The F. W. Woolworth store at 8207 Oak Street was gutted by a suspicious fire
on April 30, 1969. Also damaged was the adjacent Disabled American Veterans
store. More than twenty-five NOFD units worked to control the blaze. No injuries
were reported. A large part of the Carrollton area lost electrical power as a
result of the fire.



Photograph by T. J. Picone, Jr., Fire Prevention Division, NOFD.

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