Sunday, October 07, 2007

Funeral Home In Foreclosure Burns Down, Feds Investigate

WXIA-TV (Atlanta, Georgia) reports:
  • A funeral home that burned during a two-alarm fire in Griffin Monday night was in foreclosure and slated to be sold in October, 11Alive News learned Tuesday.The fire broke out about 6 p.m. Monday on the second floor of the historic antebellum home that housed the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home business. Griffin fire investigators returned to the scene Tuesday, along with federal investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as well as the state Fire Marshal's Office.

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