GRAND FORKS (KFGO) – Firefighters responded to a fire just after 2 a.m. Tuesday in the laundry room at the Grand Forks County Correctional Center at 1701 North Washington Street. It’s the second fire in the laundry room in less than a month.
Fire crews arrived and were met by jail employees who had discovered smoke and flames in the room. They found that clothes in the dryer had caught fire and the sprinkler system had activated. The fire was quickly extinguished and the smoke was removed from the building.
One inmate was transported to Altru Hospital with unknown injuries.
The cause of the fire is undetermined. The earlier fire was on Thanksgiving Day.
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