Dragnet: The Big Fire

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from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Wednesday, May 9th, it was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide detail. My partner is Ed Jacobs, the boss is Captain Norman, my name is Friday.

It was 6.47pm when I got back to the capital avenue auto court. Cottie's number 11. No, no reason in the world for it. I tried to reason with him. He wouldn't even listen. It was the craziest thing I ever saw.