On This Date in Minnesota History: January 22

January 22, 1982 – “Robert Hays and Bruce Raeburn, two Mahtomedi firefighters, lose their lives in the Brine's meat market fire in Stillwater, Minn. It is the worst loss of life in a fire in over 75 years.”

http://projects.wchsmn.org/reference/events/brines-fire/

http://twincitiesfirewire.com/2012/01/22/mahtomedi-to-remember-two-of-its-fallen-bravest/

Brine's, Downtown Stillwater, Minn.

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Jan. 22, 2014,
as long as acknowledgement included.