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| Tex. jail evacuated as blaze destroys nearby store |
| By The Dallas Morning News |
| Published: 08/12/2003 |
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Fire gutted a Garland, Texas embroidery store, destroying the contents of the building and forcing police to evacuate about 25 inmates from the neighboring Garland Police and Court Building. No injuries were reported in the three-alarm blaze that broke out around 6:40 p.m. at Sew What? Embroidery across an alley from the police building downtown. 'As a precaution, we went ahead and evacuated the jail,' said police Officer Joe Harn. The jail is in the basement of the court building. The 25 inmates, most of whom Mr. Harn said were charged with misdemeanors, were evacuated from the jail and held aboard a DART bus. The fire, which took about 40 firefighters 40 minutes to control, started on the top floor of the two-story embroidery store, but officials had not determined a cause, said Merrill Balanciere, a spokesman for the Garland Fire Department. It was not clear whether the building suffered structural damage. The fire did not spread, but two adjacent buildings, an office building and a photography store, were damaged by smoke. The group of buildings was built in the early 1900s. |
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