Fires Hit Florida Women’s Clinics
Arsonists destroyed a Florida women’s clinic and may have been responsible for a fire that apparently gutted another clinic 150 miles away early Sunday, just before a huge abortion rights march in Washington, authorities said.
Deborah Struthers, president of the All Woman’s Health Center in Ocala and the Ft. Myers Woman’s Health Center, said both clinics were hit at about the same time.
The Ocala fire was the second there in less than 10 days. Someone tried to burn the clinic March 31, and officials said Sunday’s blaze looked like the work of the same arsonist.
About half an hour after firefighters got the call in Ft. Myers, a neighbor spotted the Ocala clinic in flames and called firefighters. Officials said the Ocala clinic was destroyed and the Ft. Myers clinic also appeared to have been gutted.
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