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Firefighters work on a fire at an abandoned funeral home in New Bedford, Mass., on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

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Abandoned funeral home burns

Updated: Wednesday, 30 Jun 2010, 11:33 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 30 Jun 2010, 11:33 AM EDT

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) - Flames tore through an abandoned funeral home in New Bedford on Wednesday morning, and investigators are looking into how it started.

The fire broke out around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the building on County Street.

Responding firefighters were ordered to pull out of the building a short time after they arrived, and instead work from the outside.

No injuries have been reported.


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