A tragic day in Kansas city 1959

Kansas City is one of America's most peaceful and beautiful large cities rarely does an incident of violence hurl Kansas City into the glare of national news headlines but late in the summer of 1959 a spark touched off a raging Inferno which killed six brave men and injured more than 100 some of the men you'll be seeing in the news coverage of this tragedy are now dead this is a presentation of KMBC TV in Kansas City Missouri this is where tragedy struck in Kansas City it's shortly after 9:00 the morning of Tuesday August 18th 1959 the location busy Southwest Boulevard on the Kansas side of the Missouri Kansas Line This is what is left of a service station and bulk gasoline storage plant the fire has been raging for an hour it apparently began when two men were loading gasoline into a tank truck on the service station Drive