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TOWER- A snowmobile caught fire while fueling up at Vermilion Fuel and Food, in Tower, last Thursday morning, sending a plume of thick black smoke soaring over Main Street. Loud pops, crackles, and …
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TOWER- A snowmobile caught fire while fueling up at Vermilion Fuel and Food, in Tower, last Thursday morning, sending a plume of thick black smoke soaring over Main Street. Loud pops, crackles, and booms could be heard blocks away.
“I heard a small pop,” said cashier Colette Sistad, who was outside observing the flames from a safe distance. “I didn’t think anything of it. But then a guy came running in telling me to call 911.”
A snowmobile group from southeastern Minnesota had left Fortune Bay only a few minutes earlier and stopped in Tower to fill up their machines.
“I heard a poof and then I was on fire,” said a very lucky snowmobile rider named Larry who didn’t wish his last name to be used. Within seconds, the snowmobile and the gasoline dispensing pump were engulfed in flames. The flames shot around and above Larry, who quickly realized that his pants and jacket were on fire. Still wearing his helmet and gloves, he was luckily protected from the flames. He patted the fire out with his gloves as his friends were hollering at him to get away from the flames.