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Maintenance Shop Fire Causes Evacuation
Kathy Waters/Highlands Today
Firefighters secure the scene of a golf course maintenance shop fire Thursday in Leisure Lakes. A part of the neighborhood was evacauted because of chemicals that were in the shop.
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Published: February 15, 2008
LAKE PLACID — At approximately 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Highlands County Emergency Management officials and firefighters responded to a structure fire at 942 Peachtree Drive, in Lake Placid's Leisure Lakes subdivision.
Ben Henley, of the Highlands County EOC, said that as of Thursday at press time, the fire had been contained. There were no injuries according to Henley.
Sixteen homes, housing 40 residents, located downwind of the fire, had to be evacuated, Henley added. Evacuees were allowed to return to their homes at approximately 3 p.m.
Henley said that the evacuation was a precaution because the maintenance shop housed several chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides, which burned and could have possibly seeped into the air.
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