Tri-State Week in Review: Officials: Fire Started Accidentally

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Investigators ruled last Sunday that a devastating fire that destroyed three downtown Maquoketa (Iowa) Main Street businesses and caused damage to four others on Jan. 19 started accidentally. Because the fire damage was so extensive, the exact cause was impossible to determine.

A unit of the state fire marshal's office inspected the site of the fire for two days, issuing a ruling late last Sunday.

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Tri-State Week in Review: Officials: Fire Started Accidentally

Fire Chief Mark Beck said the male occupant of a second-floor apartment above Jackson County Home Furnishings opened the door to his apartment from the outside at 2 a.m. Jan. 19 to find it filled with smoke. He ran out of the building to call 911, but what might have been a smoldering fire burst into f...

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