Fire on Jackson Street

Published 12:00 am Friday, March 20, 2009

Danielle Craig, right, is consoled by a neighbor as she watches Vicksburg firefighters extinguish a blaze at her 1403 Jackson St. home Thursday. The fire was reported just after 7 p.m. VFD investigator Leslie Decareaux this morning blamed the fire on a faulty electrical outlet in a bedroom and said half of the house was damaged by fire, smoke or water.  Craig lives in the house with her parents, Eloise Craig and James Pinkney, and her boyfriend, Leonard Miller. No injuries were reported in the blaze.

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