Feb 2, 2012

Great Bel Air Fire remembered 40 years later


(Aegis) Thursday is the 40th anniversary of an event that has reverberated up and down Main Street in Bel Air to this day.
What some in town still refer to as the Great Bel Air Fire raged for more than four hours on Wednesday morning, Feb. 2, 1972 – Groundhog Day.
The fire resulted in the loss of six businesses and more than $2 million in damage. Continued

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