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No one injured in State Street fire

ALPENA — No one was injured and only light smoke and water damage was noted after a structure fire tonight on the 1000 block of South State Street.

The Alpena City Fire Department said in a news release it was dispatched at 7:13 p.m. to a two-story, multi-business building with an apartment above the commercial units. A tenant had reported a furnace on fire.

Crews found a fire in a utility closet that had burned under the furnace and into the crawl space, the news release said. Firefighters accessed the crawl space and extinguished the fire, keeping it contained to the room of origin.

The Alpena Police Department and gas and power companies assisted.

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