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Fire companies battle blaze at Utica strip mall · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Fire companies battle blaze at Utica Strip Mall. Written by
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  Tom Collins, This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlet. The fire was extinguished
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  in just fifteen minutes, and Utica firefighters are pretty sure
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  it was electrical. After all, a nearby power pole was
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  felled just two hours before the fire. Utica Fire Chief
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  Ben Brown said Thursday that the Star of Rock House
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  of Jerky was not a total loss damage estimate fifty
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  thousand dollars and should reopen sooner than later. The store,
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  located in the Strip Mall south of downtown across from
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  the car wash, was unoccupied. There were no injuries. The
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  fire was contained up into the parapet wall area. Brown
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  said it didn't make its way into the business itself,
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  so the damage is all up in the facade. The
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  full cause has yet to be determined, but Brown noted
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  a truck around ten am Thursday caught some overhead power
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  lines and knocked down a light pole just feet from
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  the store. There is an evident connection between the two events.
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  Firefighters were summoned at eleven fifty seven am Thursday and
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  were swiftly joined by oglesby LaSalle Tonica and Wallace Fire companies.
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  Brown acknowledged there was some initial but brief skepticism about
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  whether there was a fire or whether proprietors were smoking
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  jerky