Fire quickly extinguished at funeral facility in Langley

Monday, July 27, 2009 5:41 PM
Last updated 5:42 PM

Langley Fire Department officials responded today to a minor fire that was quickly extinguished at a cremation and burial society.

The incident was reported at about 4:45 p.m. at South Carolina Cremation & Burial Society on Jefferson Davis Highway in Graniteville, according to an Aiken County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher.

A Langley Fire official said a cardboard box caught fire after accidentally getting caught in machinery used at the facility. There was no structural damage.

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dashiel

Must have been one of those new "green" caskets.

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