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Another Fire Set By Child
posted (July 24, 2014)
The first fire started an hour before that one - at around 9:15 am - and again, kids were the culprits. Luckily, it was a small fire, easily contained.

Neighbors say it was started by a child playing with a lighter. One of the residents spoke with us off camera and told us how the community sprang to action when they saw the house ablaze.

Voice of Neighbor
"We were in our spot and then my sister ran out and said fire. When we came at the back we saw that the mattress had already catch fire. After that my brother-in-law, he has one foot and he actually pulls out this mattress while we were getting water to try and out it."

Robin Schaffer
"How did the fire start? Do you know?"

Voice of Neighbor
"Actually my cousin said that it's my little cousin light the mattress because no one was at the upstairs at the time where the fire started, only the baby and they said that he had a lighter and he lighted the sheet and the sheet catch fire underneath the mattress."

The residents said that if not for the quick response from the community as well as the fire department, the entire neighborhood could have gone down.

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