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Early Morning Fire At State Penitentiary

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Furniture goes up in flames at the state penitentiary early this morning.

Acting Battalion Chief Guy Pinkman says guards found a fire inside the pen's furniture shop around 2 a.m.

But he says by the time fire crews arrived, sprinklers had put out the blaze.

The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.

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