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Published: August 20, 2008 10:22 pm    print this story   email this story   comment on this story  

THFD investigating arson of vacant South 18th Street structure

Staff report
The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Members of the Terre Haute Fire Department were investigating an arson after responding to a residential structure fire Tuesday night.

Firefighters were called to a house in the 1200 block of South 18th Street shortly after 9:30 p.m., according to a Fire Department news release.

Light smoke was showing from the vacant structure when they arrived 5 minutes after the call. Damage was estimated at $10,000. A cause was not yet known.

The vacant house had no working utilities, said John Gardner, the Fire Department’s public information officer. Investigators have ruled it an arson.

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