Fire broke out just in the evening of Wednesday April 4th, 1973 at the southwest corner of the old Card Brush Factory on Main Street in Newburgh. By morning, the three story large wooden building was completely destroyed but the fireman had managed to save the garage and gas pumps a few meters away from the building, the large sales barn next to it and the grocery store across the street which melted its sign and broke several windows from the heat.  My father spent much of the night on the grocery store roof, (now Abrams Bakery), with a garden hose dousing out burning embers from the factory fire.