HARDIN CO., Ill.—A fire at a two-story residential structure on the curve of Highway 146 going into Elizabethtown from the north has sprung back up again this evening after it burned briefly this morning.
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According to E-town residents, the house caught fire this morning under somewhat strange circumstances: Before firefighters could arrive, Sheriff JT Fricker entered the structure and located the source of it, this being a mattress, which he literally dragged outside and then stopped any further damage to the structure.
However, it started back up tonight—with the mattress gone, of course—and now it’s fully engulfed.
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The house is not far from public housing just off Highway 146. Fire officials have reportedly shut down the highway in order to fight it.
More in the morning.