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NewsMay 24, 1995

DELTA -- Local residents said six people are lucky to be alive after a house fire in Delta early Tuesday. A spokesman for the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department said Delta firefighters were summoned to the scene at 6:09 a.m. A dispatcher for the Chaffee Fire Department said its firefighters also fought the blaze that gutted the home...

DELTA -- Local residents said six people are lucky to be alive after a house fire in Delta early Tuesday.

A spokesman for the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department said Delta firefighters were summoned to the scene at 6:09 a.m. A dispatcher for the Chaffee Fire Department said its firefighters also fought the blaze that gutted the home.

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No one was injured, but officials believed the homeowners, Doug and Darla Hess, and four children escaped the home with none of their belongings.

Officials and local residents didn't know where the family was staying.

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