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3 pets perish in fire that destroys Champaign County home

JACKSON TWP., Champaign County — A dog and two cats perished in an afternoon fire that destroyed a house north of Christiansburg.

Crews were called around 3 p.m. to a single-story home in the 2300 block of South Elm Tree Road.

No one was home when the fire started.

A woman who said she lived in the house with her husband and son said when she returned home from the store, her house was on fire.

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The family has insurance, she said.

Christiansburg, St. Paris and Fletcher fire departments responded to the fire, the cause of which remains under investigation.

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