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Sylva firefighters responded to a call shortly before 4 p.m.
Monday at Courthill Apartments on Ridgeway Street. A kitchen in
a ground floor apartment caught fire from something being left
on the stove, said Chief Mike Beck. "The cabinets caught
on fire and pretty much wiped the kitchen out," Beck said.
"Smoke damage was pretty much confined to the one apartment."
The building was evacuated for about an hour, he said. Fire departments
from Balsam and Savannah provided mutual aid. Initial reports
indicated the fire was in the roof, and Beck said he could see
smoke as he left his job at Jackson Paper. Those factors prompted
him to call for the Cherokee Fire Department to bring its ladder
truck, but that request was cancelled when it was learned the
fire was not as serious as first thought. The building, originally
C.J. Harris Community Hospital, was the scene of one of Jackson
County's most famous fires when the hospital was damaged by an
April 1958 blaze. - Herald photo by Carey Phillips
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