On this date in 1977, Norma Quarberg awoke from a nap to find her Moorhead apartment in flames, escaping unharmed after alerting a neighbor as firefighters quickly contained the blaze.

Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:

Norma Quarberg said she was sleeping in her apartment at 17½ 4th St. S. in Moorhead when she awoke to see “flames all over” about 5 p.m. Thursday.

After alerting a neighbor, Joni Skansgaard, 19, who lives in one of the two other apartments above Ritter Beauty College, Quarberg ran shoeless from the building.

“She’s damn lucky she got out,” said Moorhead assistant fire chief Morrie Kelsven.

Kelsven said the fire, which Moorhead fire crews had doused within half an hour, caused “quite a bit of damage” to Quarberg’s apartment, the only apartm

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