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Flames danced brightly Tuesday night, as an Odessa Union Warehouse grain elevator and flathouse burn to the ground in downtown Odessa. The cause is not known but appeared to have started atop the elevator building before spreading to the flathouse.
Fire roared through two downtown buildings owned by the Odessa Union Warehouse Tuesday night, destroying them completely. An evacuation order was issued by the Odessa Police and Fire Departments and went out to nearby residents through the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office automated calling system.
According to town Fire Chief Don Strebeck, the first 911 call was received at 8:15 p.m. The members of a bunco group were meeting at Any Occasion Banquet Hall, and one of them, Peggy DeWulf, glanced out the window and saw flames on top of the grain elevator down the street next to the Union’s office b...
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