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    • Aug 22, 1961
    Conway Twitty and three band members escape injury when they run from their car on an Iowa highway just before the vehicle explodes. They lose $15,000 in clothing and equipment, plus a briefcase full of money from their Midwest tour
    Aug 28, 1962
    A fire destroys 75% of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in California, a former shooting locale for dozens of western movies
    Dec 30, 1962
    Brenda Lee suffers a minor eye injury and has her hair singed when she tries unsuccessfully to rescue her poodle, CeeCee, from a house fire in Nashville. Lee's nine-room home, valued at $37,000, is destroyed along with $25,000 worth of clothing
    Mar 29, 1963
    Texas Ruby dies in a trailer fire in Nashville while her husband, Curly Fox, is playing the Grand Ole Opry. The two began working together in the 1930s, becoming a significant touring act the following decade
    Dec 25, 1964
    Red Foley and his wife, Sally, are sent to Baptist Hospital after a fire starts in their Nashville apartment from a dropped cigarette butt. Red has burns on his right hand; Sally suffers from smoke inhalation
    Jun 27, 1965
    Johnny Cash sets off a fire at Los Padres National Forest in California, blamed on a faulty exhaust on the singer's camper. The blaze consumes nearly 585 acres of condor habitat and requires 450 firefighters to extinguish
    Oct 22, 1965
    Fire breaks out in Tex Ritter's room at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville. Ritter loses his guitar, several hunting rifles and new cowboy outfits made in England and Hong Kong
    Nov 28, 1967
    Jimmy Buffett's apartment in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is destroyed by fire. Buffett, who is performing in New Orleans at the time, is unhurt. His roommate dies in the blaze
    Dec 3, 1967
    Singer/songwriter Wayne Kemp, the author of "The Image Of Me" and "Love Bug," is involved in an accident while touring in Moline, Illinois. Two of his band members are killed, and Kemp suffers serious burns
    Aug 3, 1968
    Johnny Cash guitarist Luther Perkins is burned over 50% of his body when he falls asleep smoking a cigarette at his home in Nashville. He is rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center, but dies two days later



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