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    • Sep 26, 1994
    A listener calls WKID in Vevay, Indiana, repeatedly, requesting Tim McGraw's "Don't Take The Girl." When the station fails to play the record, he enters the studio after WKID signs off and sets six separate fires
    Feb 15, 1995
    Ed Keathley, the bass player for Ray Stevens, dies in Nashville of smoke inhalation after falling asleep with a lit cigarette
    Dec 24, 1995
    Freddy Fender's home in Corpus Christi, Texas, is damaged by fire while the singer is attending church services. Firefighters reach the scene early enough that his only loss of significance is a closet
    Feb 16, 1996
    A Knoxville franchise in the Budget Inn of America hotel chain burns. The complex had once been known as the Family Inn, and was referenced in "Third Rate Romance," a hit for both The Amazing Rhythm Aces and Sammy Kershaw
    Dec 18, 1996
    A fire breaks out in Tanya Tucker's house in Arrington, Tennessee, while the singer is wrapping Christmas presents at 3 a.m. The cause is undetermined
    Sep 29, 1997
    Sons Of The Desert discover a fire as they check out of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York's theater district
    Oct 19, 2000
    Garth Brooks bangs on the door of a house in Collinsville, Oklahoma, to warn residents that a dangerous grass fire is headed their way. Brooks drives two boys to safety; the kids don't recognize him
    Oct 20, 2000
    Tim McGraw's manager, Scott Siman, loses his Nashville home to a fire. No one is hurt in the blaze
    Dec 25, 2001
    Clint Eastwood's eight-year-old daughter, Francesca, escapes a house fire in Vancouver, British Columbia. The actor had 1980s country hits as a duet partner for Merle Haggard and T.G. Sheppard
    Sep 20, 2003
    Fire destroys a motel on property owned by Chuck Berry in Wentzville, Missouri. Berry's "Maybellene" was ranked earlier in the year among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"



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