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November 5, 2007

Cumberland fire deemed not suspicious

CUMBERLAND -- The state Fire Marshal’s Office has ruled that a Sunday morning blaze that heavily damaged a house at 2883 Diamond Hill Rd. was not suspicious, the police said today.

Fire officials determined that the fire was accidental in nature and likely due to an electrical fault. The house had been vacant since a blaze heavily damaged it about a year ago, but its owners were just getting ready to move in this month, the police said.

Sunday’s fire broke out at about 10 a.m. on the second floor of the 2½-story wooden dwelling. All four Cumberland fire stations as well as units from Woonsocket and Lincoln’s Albion and Manville departments responded. It took firefighters nearly three hours to control the smoky blaze.

-- Journal staff writer Philip Marcelo

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