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Show t I ? ' ... - J 1 ' ,' - t ' ( VERNAL FIREMAN douses smoky fire at lOOO East Main Saturday from cherry picker. Firemen spent several hours to extinguish ex-tinguish the blaze. Fire causes $80,000 damage A structure fire at 1000 East Main caused $80,000 in damages to a metal building and its contents, Saturday. The fire was caused by an electrical short on the southeast end of a two-story two-story building. Vernal City Police reported the fire at about 6:30 p.m. Firemen worked to douse the blaze until 10 p.m. The building is owned by Sam Thompson, Thompson Steel and Material. Persons were kept away from the burning building because some explosive ex-plosive material was reported inside. Total damages to the building was $50,000 with $30,000 damage to the contents con-tents of the building. |