#VintageKSDK | The firestorm that blew helmets off St. Louis firefighters from a block away

ST. LOUIS - Storms in April are nothing new in St. Louis. In fact, we’ve come to expect them. But there was a storm no one saw coming back in the spring of 1976. And, as you’ll see in this edition of Vintage KSDK, this one blew helmets off firefighters and could have wiped out the entire city. “This is a firestorm,” explained Charles Kamprad, the St. Louis fire chief at the time. “It’s magnitude is 500 times greater than a five-alarm fire would be.” Read more: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/his...