When I was on probation, going through the houses, and was stationed on Truck 5 A we has a fire at New England Tobacco. I think that was the name. on the corner of Islandbrook and North Avenue. It was the spring of 1972.After the fire was out, Steve and I were shoveling debris outside and Steve cut his hand. From the reports I got later; Steve went to show an officer and one of the owners said, go to aisle so and so, and up on the 3d shelf are some bandaids. Steve went to the location and when he reached up to get a bandaid a different owner yelled at him, "Hey, what are you doing?! Get away from there! You guys have been stealing from me right and left!". Then he pulled out a gun on Steve. Steve left the room and told an officer. One minute later, we were told by our chief and officers to immediately stop the clean-up. So we abruptly left without finishing.
