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ST. GEORGE — Heavy smoke billowed into the sky as a fire raged through a Chinese restaurant on South Bluff Street in St. George on Monday.
The blaze caused such significant damage that it will be some time before the business reopens, while the barber school next door was spared any fire damage, thanks to a set of large ventilation fans that disrupted the spread of the blaze.
Just before 9:30 a.m. Monday, firefighters and first responders were dispatched to the China Palace restaurant on the corner of South Bluff and North 200 West in St. George. Smoke was billowing from the windows, a sight reported to emergency dispatch by several motorists heading in both directions on Bluff Street.
Inside the structure, active flames in the kitchen area began to spread throughout the room, sending big clouds of opaque smoke from the building, while police officers alerted all occupants in both businesses. Among them was a class full of students and staff in the adjacent barber school business. They were safely evacuated as the first engines rolled up to the scene.
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