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Show Discarded ashes cause condo fire A fire last week at the Windrift Condominiums apparently was started by discarded fireplace ashes, said Park City Fire Marshal Mar-shal Sam Coleman. -(.,; Coleman said the fire caused about $40,000 in damages to the roof areas in condominiums 13 and 15, which are the top apartments apart-ments of a four-plex. The lower apartments received minor damage, he said. The ashes from the fireplace of unit 13 had been placed on an outside out-side deck in a paper bag, which was placed in a cardboard box, : Coleman said. ; The following day, Dec. 3, those coals were fanned by the wind 'and ignited the deck. The flames spread up the wall and into the roof of the structure. When firelighters arrived, the deck was ablaze, Coleman said. The deck fire was immediately extinguished, but fireman work-1 work-1 ed for 30 minutes to get inside the ; roof , where the fire could be "choked," he explained. i |