114 East Dominion Columbus 14 Ohio Sunday, March 14, 1954

Dear Jimmy,
There was a fire in back of our house yesterday.  Our next door neighbor started it by burning a pile of twigs right in a whole mess of dried up weeds.  And it started spreading real fast so everyone around us was running out there with their brooms and shovels.  And there was a woods pretty near and it almost caught on fire but the fire went right around it and the houses on the street in back of us almost caught on fire.  It got so bad they had to call the fire department.  The only thing good about the fire was that there was a whole mess