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Jasper firefighters worked quickly on Tuesday afternoon to douse a fire that was spreading across pine straw and dry grass and came within a few inches of igniting the back wall of a business.
It happened shortly after 3:00 between Ashley Furniture and Jasper United Pentecostal Church on Highway 190 at Farm to Market Road 252.
Employees of Ashley Furniture said it was a homeless man who set the fire, and they noted that it was the second time that he has done this. He had fled the scene before firefighters arrived.
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