Posted on 12/13/2004 12:04:05 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
A Clinton home received $25,000 damage in a fire early Sunday morning.
Clinton Fire Department Battalion Chief Ken Schumacher reported in a press release that fire units were dispatched at 1:19 a.m. Sunday to the Jeff Eggers residence, 1007 Ninth Ave. North.
When fire units arrived at the house, firefighters conducted a quick search of the residence and found a fire in a wall located behind and above a fireplace chimney that the Eggers had used earlier in the evening. Schumacher reported the family had awakened to the smell of smoke, investigated, and found smoke coming from around the chimney near an outside wall and then called the fire department.
The fire department opened the wall and all adjoining spaces, attic and wall spaces after a large amount of heat was detected in a second floor bathroom and bedroom walls. Schumacher said upon opening the wall, a large amount of fire was found and quickly extinguished. The fire department reported some of the flames extended to the attic.
Fire units were on the scene for 2 1/2 hours. There were no injuries, and smoke detectors inside the home operated.The home and contents are insured.
I don't get it.
Oh. A house IN Clinton.
Reminds me of the headline MANS SHOOTS 63 WHILE CROWD GASPS. It was a golf story
Exciting stuff. Keep us posted.
. . . and I had such high hopes.
heh heh heh
Dangnabbit
Oh. Clinton is the TOWN. Darn.
Yeah, I could see klintoon's crack pipe setting his house on fire. But dang.........
Was that Marty's house?
Guess the paltry sum of $25k in damages should have been the tip off, huh?
Was it next door to a black church?
$25,000? I guess that Slick's trailer was a total write-off...
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