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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 16, 1993                   TAG: 9302160213
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

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WYTHE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS FIGHT 3 FIRES

Four Wythe County fire departments found themselves battling three fires Sunday and early Monday in cold weather.

It started with an 11 p.m. call Sunday for a fire that started in an outbuilding on Virginia 600 in the Cove section and spread to an adjacent three-story frame house.

Wytheville, Max Meadows and Ivanhoe Fire Departments contained the blaze but the buildings were destroyed. Pete Nora, who rented the house, escaped unhurt.

The loss was estimated at $250,000.

While those fires were burning, a mobile home owned by Larry Dobbins on Virginia 610 caught fire and was destroyed.

Early Monday, Rural Retreat firefighters extinguished a flue fire at a home near Rural Retreat. - Southwest bureau

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