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By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on January 17, 2008 1:46 PM
Wal-Mart fire
Lee Carpenter of Wal-Mart on North Spence Avenue reported Wednesday night that at least three unknown suspects set a fire in the women's lingerie section, Goldsboro police said. An estimated $20,000 of Wal-Mart property was destroyed in the fire, Sgt. Chad Calloway said in a news release. Two employees who used extinguishers to put out the fire were transported to Wayne Memorial Hospital, probably for inhalation of dust from the extinguishers, Fire Chief Alvin Ward said. Ward said the building's sprinkler system and employees' proper use of fire extinguishers "probably saved the building." Police are using video evidence, and ask the public to call Investigator Doug Bethea at 580-4214 or Crimestoppers at 735-2255 with any relevant information.
Suspicious fire
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fire at an abandoned house that caused $30,000 in damages to 907 Emmaus Church Road, Dudley. Firefighters responded to the blaze Tuesday after 11 p.m., and a report of a suspicious fire was made official just after 1 a.m., according to a Wayne County Sheriff's Office report. The home is owned by Sleepy Creek Farms, the report shows.
Copper theft
Timothy Myers of Carmel Lane Goldsboro reported Tuesday that $1,600 worth of scrap copper wire had been stolen from his home, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office reported.