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Investigators: Cause of Renton community center fire ‘suspicious’

Jun 6, 2013, 7:44 AM | Updated: 7:46 am

Investigators are calling a fire at the Ukrainian Community Center in Renton suspicious.

Fire crews were called to the center just before 2:00 a.m. Thursday and found flames running up the side of the building and into the attic.

The fire appears to have started in a pile of debris on the side of the building.

Witnesses told police they saw a couple of people leaving the area in the 200 block of Hardie Avenue NW about the time the fire started.

No one was injured and the fire remains under investigation.

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