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Oily rags at the center of recent spontaneous fire at museum
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By nfpa@jiveon.com A recent three-alarm fire that damaged the State Police Museum & Learning Center in Grafton, Massachusetts, broke out spontaneously when rags and sawdust tossed together in a plastic bag heated up and ignited, the state fire marshal said. According
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