Maudie Atkinson Fire Newspaper Report

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MAYCOMB – Yesterday night, an unknown fire, measuring 20 meters in size, emerged from the house of Miss. Maudie Atkinson on Main Street. The fire injured nobody but had burnt the house down. The unknown fire had alarmed the entire town of Maycomb and had raged on for hours, burning the house of 50-year-old Maudie Atkinson down. “The fire had begun small, but increased in size,” said Maudie Atkinson in an interview with the Maycomb Times. The fire grew large and had almost spread to the Finch and Haverford households, but the fire was controlled before it could. Whilst the fire was ongoing, many people rushed into the burning house to retrieve various items for Ms. Atkinson, but one of these people had been trapped in the inferno;

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