Jump-start gone wrong

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CST; updated 12:07 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BY ANN HERMES

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Columbia firefighters Pete Martin, right, and Andy Gray extinguish a car fire on the sixth floor of MU’s Hitt Street parking garage Tuesday night. The owner was trying to jump-start another vehicle when the engine of his Ford Taurus ignited because of a short in the cables, Lieutenant Eric Hartman said.

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