Small Firestation

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This sucks.

Volunteers' station burns while fighting house fire

By MATTHEW ROY, The Virginian-Pilot
© January 19, 2006



BLOXOM — They suited up around 11 p.m. Tuesday night, as they have for decades, volunteers answering the call. A house was ablaze several miles from this small Eastern Shore town near the Maryland-Virginia line.


An hour later, while fighting that fire, they got a second call: Their own fire station was ablaze.

Bloxom volunteers raced back, but by the time they got to their two-story building, flames were shooting from the front bays and fire was licking through the two-story structure.
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