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Arson is suspected in an early-morning fire that caused heat and smoke damage to a classroom Wednesday at Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, the Sheriff’s Department arson unit said.
About a dozen firefighters fought the blaze, which started at 2:31 a.m. and was contained shortly after 4 a.m., Paul Bledsoe, an arson investigator for the Sheriff’s Department, said. Damage to the structure was estimated at $2,000 and about $50 for the contents, he said.
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