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Mhm hook out shortly before three o'clock starting in the garage beneath the two bedroom home of Samuel Hill Jr 12 61 casada Street. Hill and a friend were apparently working on his car in the garage when fumes from spilled gasoline were ignited by the pot it

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light of a water heater. The ignition was of almost explosive force spreading virtually immediately upwards through the floor to the main part of the house. Four of hills Children 7, 8, 10 and 12 years old were able to escape. The three younger Children trapped in a

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back bedroom. Were not, they were the two year old son of Hill and the three and five year old daughters of Homer Web of 26th Street. His Children were visiting at the Hill home at the time when firemen arrived, the home was totally involved and Hill

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was found burned and in shock. On the front steps. He's now being treated at SAn Francisco General Hospital as his web who arrived shortly after the fire began. Mrs Hill was downtown christmas shopping at the time of the fire, was not aware of the tragedy until

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returning home Evan White eyewitness News SAN Francisco.