Firefighters battle building fire in Blair early Wednesday
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Firefighters are battling a building fire off Highway 30 in Blair, Nebraska.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office reported the fire near Kelly Drive on Twitter at 4:25 a.m. When KETV NewsWatch 7 crews arrived at the scene about half an hour later, they found smoke and flames billowing from a building on the property of a Woodhouse car dealership.
Sign up for our NewslettersAround 5:40 a.m., a ladder truck arrived at the scene to help crews combat the flames.
Blair Fire Chief Dave Aten said most of the fire was in the middle bay toward the east side of the building. They had to get the door out of the way to access it. Aten said one vehicle was in the bay that was on fire and six or seven others were inside the building. They were new vehicles.
No one was inside the building when the fire started.
The investigation into how the fire started remained ongoing.
Crews from Blair, Kennard and Ft. Calhoun responded to put out the flames.
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