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By Mark Lambird
The Clay County Advocate-Press
Fri Mar 20, 2009, 09:31 AM CDT
Flora, Ill. -
Sometime around 6:30 Wednesday evening, someone who had smoked outside of the No More Nicotine Club in Flora threw down a cigarette.
Most times that would have been the end of it. Just another cigarette butt laying on the sidewalk around the building.
But a gust of wind picked up that cigarette and blew, the still smoldering butt, up against the building and underneath some siding.
At 6:43 a 911 call was made from the club saying that smoke was coming from the buildings walls.
“We turned off the power to make sure it was not electrical,” said the clubs owner Phil Wiley. “The employees kept working the entire time.”
Once Flora Fire Chief Bruce Dickey and his crew made it to the scene the cause of the some was determined, at which time Dickey showed Wiley where the fire had started.
“They put it out with a little bit of water,” Wiley said Monday evening taking a break from working in the clubs kitchen. “The fire department did an outstanding job, they came to do business.
Apparently, just another night in Flora at the"No More Nicotine Club".
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