Three children escaped injury early Sunday morning when a fire started in an upstairs bedroom at 512 S. Pacific St.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the Cape Girardeau Fire Department, which responded to the 911 call at 3:24 a.m.
The children were sleeping in the bedroom when the blaze woke them.
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