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Show Rash of Community Fires Keeps Volunteers in fiction Three fires in Cedar City on successive days, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday brought an estimated estimat-ed fire loss to the community of over $7,000 it was reported by the Cedar City volunteer fire department. de-partment. The first fire, and probably the most costly, was at the David Thorley home at 100 North 200 West Street. The home Is now occupied by the Wallace Thorlevs and damage by a fire of undetermined unde-termined origin was estimated at approximately $4,000. approximately 54,000 The east section of the home was completely com-pletely burned out. The kitchen, a porch and storeroom on that side of the house were completely complete-ly demolished by the flames. Nbthing was saved' and kitchen stove, refrigerator and other kitchen furnishings were burned1 up entirely. The call to the volunteer vol-unteer fire department came in at about 10:30 a. m. and firemen fire-men were able to save the major ma-jor portion of the home, but the east side addition which was destroyed. de-stroyed. Tuesday ' the fire department was again called out to exting-guish exting-guish flames of pitch pine firewood fire-wood that had been started by children plaving with matches at the Jim Hunter residence on north 300 West Street. Tuesday evening at 7:30 the third successive call in as many days took the volunteers to the El Rev Cafe where the celling of the kitchen had been set on fire by defective wiring. Damage was estimated at over $2,000 and the cafe was forced to close its doors. Damaee to the kitchen and equipment at the cafe was ni1 but the ceiling and a second story apartment received the major ma-jor portion of the ("ama"". Personal Per-sonal delongings and clothing were destroyed in the apartment. |