"It's a bargain basement, fire-sale syndrome", says Jay Nagley of Spyder Automotive.

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His vault fell several stories to the basement and cooked overnight in a fire.

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They also maintain that ventilating the fire by smashing windows in order to clear smoke from the bar made the task of fighting the fire in the pub basement more dangerous.

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The cause of the fire, which damaged the basement and first floor, is under investigation.

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The building dated back to the 18th century, but a mid-20th-century fire meant that everything but the basement had been rebuilt.

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The fire started in the building's basement where flammable material was stored.

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In some communities the fire department will even pump water out of your basement for you.

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During the storm, water filled the basement of the Immigration Building, and there was also significant damage to mechanical systems and the building's fire suppression system.

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In my hunger to free my heart, I suited up in firefighting gear and went back into a "controlled" fire to face and heal my fears of fire as an adult, not as a scared little girl trapped with the beast in my grandparents' basement years ago.

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