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Fire department seeks photos or videos of Delavan Street fire

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[October 17, 2011]  Saturday at 9:30 p.m. the Lincoln Fire Department received a call of a structure fire at 1018 Delavan St.

Picture by Nila Smith

When the Lincoln Fire Department and Lincoln Police Department arrived at the multifamily apartment building, both agencies did a search of the building to get the rest of the occupants out of the building. Four of the six apartments were occupied.

During the operations, three firefighters were injured.

The age and layout of the structure made the efforts to extinguish the fire very difficult. Both ladder trucks from the city of Lincoln were on the scene, using elevated streams to help extinguish the fire.

During the process of fighting the fire, two neighboring properties were damaged.

There was mutual aid from off-duty members of the Lincoln Fire Department along with the Lincoln Rural Fire Protection District, Atlanta Fire Department, Mount Pulaski Fire Department, Latham Fire Department, Ameren, Lincoln Police Department, Lincoln Street Department, Logan County Paramedic Association, Logan County Emergency Management Agency, and the American Red Cross.

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The apartment building was severely damaged, with the loss estimated at $300,000.

Lincoln Fire Department investigators are working with the state fire marshal's office. The cause of the fire is undetermined and under investigation.

If anyone has any photographs or video of the fire prior to the Lincoln Fire Department's arrival, please contact the department at 735-4020.

[Text from file received from Lincoln Fire Department; Tim Aper, lead investigator, and Chief Mark Miller]

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