Smokey Fire Just East Of Downtown
Office-dwellers downtown might have thought the George R. Brown Convention Center was on fire this afternoon, as smoke from that area burgeoned up.![]()
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt
Instead it was an abandoned commercial building on the other side of 59, at Polk and St. Emmanuel, that was the site of the two-alarm fire.
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Smoke, but not much to worry about
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