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Fire at airport causes evacuation in baggage claim area 

Jump to full article: KARE NBC 11 (Minneapolis, MN), 2009-07-08
Author: Trisha Volpe

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A fire at the Minneapolis airport closed an area in the baggage claim area Wednesday afternoon.

According to a Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport spokesman, a janitor went outside to clean the cigarette butts near an airport entrance on the lower level. He sprayed them down to make sure they were all out, but one remained lit. So when he dumped the garbage in the janitor's closet a fire started.

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