Smoking couch empties Shellsburg nursing home (The Gazette)


SHELLSBURG and#8212; The state fire marshal will try to determine how a couch caught fire Sunday morning at a Shellsburg nursing home, causing it to be evacuated briefly.About two dozen residents of the Rock Ridge Residential Care Center 401 Canton St. SW, were outside the building when firefighters arrived a few minutes after the 8:19 a.m. call, Fire Chief Scott McNeal said. Firefighters found ...

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