* A DOLLAR STORE IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN, suffered extensive damage early this morning (Thursday) when a suspicious fire raced through it shortly after 4 am. The Detroit Free Press is reporting:
Witnesses told investigators they saw smoke coming from the store at 20320 Schoolcraft, west of Evergreen near I-96, just after a car sped off at 4:24 a.m., according to the Detroit Fire Department.
The witnesses had seen people loading items into the car from the closed store before the fire, according to investigators. The fire damaged thousands of dollars of merchandise in the store as well as the building. No one was injured.
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A MAJOR FIRE IN DOWNTOWN CLINTON, ONTARIO, on Tuesday January 12, started in a Salvation Army food bank and spread to several other business including a Dollar Store that suffered fire and smoke damages. The entire city block was involved in the fire.
Clinton News Record
The London Free Press has the complete STORY.
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A ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, GRAND JURY INDICTED a man who was arrested and charged last week with setting a Family Dollar store on fire back in November that caused more than a million dollars worth of damage to a shopping center (see Firegeezer story HERE). The 40-yr.-old career criminal is alleged to have set the fire to created a diversion so that he could steal money from a cash drawer.
WHAM-TV Ch. 13 has this video report on last week’s arrest:
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* A FIRE AT THE DOLLAR DEPOT STORE in downtown Hobart, Oklahoma, on Saturday December 29, completely gutted the building and caused significant damage to the business on each side of the store.
Democrat-Chief photo
The row of 100-yr.-old buildings has firewalls between most of the structures and that is being credited with saving the entire block from destruction. Over 12 neighboring fire departments responded to provide mutual-aid to the Hobart FD. The fire began around 4 pm and it is unknown what caused it. Source: The Oklahoman.
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