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A Lit Cigarette to Blame for a Grassfire That Started Two Weeks Ago

ODESSA - Odessa Fire Investigators say they now know what started a massive grassfire on the south side of the city on February 25th, 2008.
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ODESSA - Odessa Fire Investigators say they now know what started a massive grassfire on the south side of the city on February 25th, 2008.

A lit cigarette.

That's the finding from a joint investigation by the U.S. Forest Service, the Texas Forest Service, and the Odessa Fire Marshal's Office.

Around 33-hundred acres of property were scorched in the fire.

Remarkably, no homes or buidlings were lost in that fire.

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