Animal Shelter Fire Declared Intentional
By Isaac Groves | Feb. 27, 2001Chapel Hill fire officials are confident a late-night fire Sunday, which killed four animals at the Orange County Animal Shelter, was set intentionally.Fire Department officials spent all of Sunday night and Monday trying to discover who caused the explosion in the night deposit box at the animal shelter off Airport Road. While she would not give details of the investigation, Chapel Hill Fire Marshal Caprice Mellon did say the fire was not an accident."It was a deliberately set fire," she said.The blaze started a little after 9 p.m. Sunday.
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