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| Inmates start fire in cell; over 100 have to be relocated |
| By Indianapolis Star |
| Published: 06/09/2004 |
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Authorities were faced Tuesday with moving about 150 prisoners to neighboring counties after inmates apparently set a fire at the Vanderburgh County (Ill.) Jail. The fire sent smoke throughout the jail Tuesday morning and caused the evacuation of its approximately 350 inmates. Sheriff Brad Ellsworth said one jail employee and five inmates were treated for smoke inhalation. The fire apparently started when inmates set a stack of mattresses and clothes aflame, Ellsworth said. He said the fire started in a cell that was designed to hold 16 people but was holding 28. Ellsworth said the cells on the third floor of the downtown government office building would remain closed for several days but that its second-floor cells were expected to open by Tuesday evening. He did not know the financial damage. The fire was extinguished soon after it was reported about 10 a.m., but smoke spread throughout the second and third floors, which house the jail, said Dan Grimm, a spokesman for the Evansville Fire Department. A new county jail is under construction but is not scheduled to open until fall 2005. |
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