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Mahogany Heights Family Claims Arson
posted (November 17, 2017)
An early morning fire gutted 32 year old Sorunica Garbutt's Mahogany Heights home. The fire started around 3:00 this morning and destroyed the entire structure even her vehicle. We haven't gotten any official report from the fire department but the family believes it was arson. We spoke to Garbutt's niece this afternoon.

Voice of Niece
"I got a call about minutes to 4am, my brother got a call and then my mother came and woke me and tell me that my aunt's house is on fire. By the time we reached house, only one of the room was really on fire. The car was already on fire as well. The neighbors threw water to put out the fire and by the time they stomp down the fence to try and open the door to see if they could have saved anything - the fire was already gushing out. So they couldn't save anything. All we could have done was stand up and watch the house went down."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"And you aunt or nobody else was in the house at that time?"

Voice of Niece
"No, no one was in the house. It was a frightening experience, especially when they wake you out of your bed to that. I don't know what started it, but I don't think that it's anything that was left on, because the car caught fire and it was far from the house. And both of them caught fire at the same time."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"So you think someone came deliberately and set your aunt's house on fire?"

Voice of Niece
"It has to be that."

Garbutt lost everything in the fire. The Fire Department wasn't ready to comment.

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