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"Firefighters battled a large fire on Main Street in Vian, Oklahoma on Wednesday.The fire started at 7 p.m., said a spokesman with the fire marshal\u2019s office, and\u00A0destroyed three businesses with shared interior walls. At one point, witnesses said the flames shot 100 feet in the air.The fire started in Sunrise Cafe and the other buildings were used for storage, said an official with the fire marshal's office.Other area departments were called in to assist firefighters contain the fire overnight.The three destroyed buildings, built in the late 1800s, were historic to Vian. Through time, one served as a First National Bank, a hotel, and doctor's office. The buildings were also used as a backdrop for the 1971 film\u00A0Where the Red Fern Grows.The fire chief said they had previously made a fire plan for the historic building because of its age and the amount of fuel inside. He said they knew that it would be a dangerous situation if the buildings ever caught on fire.\u201CIt was packed full of stuff. We had kind of pre-planned this out in the past, that if ever it burnt, that it would be a hazard,\u201D said Vian Fire Department Chief Ed Barton.The state fire marshal\u2019s office said it\u2019s going to take a week to figure out how the fire started.Vian Mayor Kenneth Johnson is also concerned about the old buildings.\u201CWe talked with the owners that hopefully, there wasn\u2019t going to be any electrical problems or anything like that. It seemed everything was up to code in the cafe that was being used,\u201D Johnson said.Dean Risley owned part of the building that burned, and he said he was using one of the buildings to store things from an old house he\u2019s renovating.\u201CThe history of it all, it just makes me sick. It was built in the late 1800s. it was a bank, and you know, in the 50s and 60s, it was a cafe. It really hurts,\u201D Risley said.Johnson said the focus is on clean up and protecting the historic property for the future.\u201CThe town has adopted some building codes recently that we\u2019re enforcing all over town, certainly with commercial buildings. It has some codes in there for that as well. When the buildings are built back, they will have to go by the new codes,\u201D Johnson said.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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