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Officials are looking closely at a Thursday afternoon structure fire in which an abandoned house went up in flames. It happened shortly after 3:00 on County Road 748, just northeast of Buna. Jasper County 911 dispatchers said that callers reported the home already fully engulfed, and Jasper County Deputy Kasey Ryan, who was first on scene, said that the flames were spreading and threatening a nearby home as well as trees and brush on the property. Both the Buna and Evadale Fire Departments were dispatched out and worked together to douse the flames.