Downtown Pawnee fire destroys a bar and several other buildings
PAWNEE — The source of a fire that burned for six hours Tuesday and destroyed the Copperheads bar and the longtime Campo real-estate office was classified as undetermined but did not involve foul play, a spokesman for the Illinois fire marshal said Wednesday. The investigation into the fire has been completed, spokesman JC Fultz said. A “hot spot” at the site, where most of the east side of the village square was destroyed, reignited at 3 a.m. Wednesday and was successfully extinguished, according to Jeff Clarke, mayor of this southern Sangamon County village of 2,600 peop...
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