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In the late evening of January 16, 2008, when SFD Firefighters arrived at the split level style house located at 7007 N Tucannon, it was fully involved in fire. At the time of the incident, there was an adult female and 3 school age children present. The family was alerted to the fire by working smoke detectors in the house which allowed them time to escape. Thankfully there were neither injuries to the occupants nor Firefighters on scene. On Thursday morning, investigators from the SFD Special Investigation Unit arrested a 16 y/o juvenile for Arson 1st degree resulting from the structure fire on January 16, 2008 at 7007 N Tucannon. The Juvenile was arrested at Sacred Heart Medical center and subsequently booked into the Juvenile Detention Center by the SIU