Apartment building catches fire for second time in a month
Wave 3 Wednesday 9th May, 2012
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Firefighters are investigating the second fire in a month at a Butchertown apartment house. The building on Franklin Street caught fire around 8:00 Tuesday night. It is the same apartment house where investigators said a man trying to dry out marijuana leaves caused an explosion on April 19. That man suffered non-life-threatening injuries. No one was hurt in Tuesday's fire. [
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