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SQUARE IS NOW DEADLY. HUMAN REMAINS WERE DISCOVERED INSIDE THE ARGO KRAMER BUILDING. YEAH, IT’S REALLY A TRAGEDY WE’VE BEEN FOLLOWING. THIS IS WHAT THE BUILDING LOOKS LIKE TODAY. NOT MUCH OF IT LEFT. WHILE THOSE CREWS ARE SCHEDULED TO SEARCH THAT RUBBLE AND DID REMOVE DEBRIS. ����vlog WAS THERE AS THE BUILDING BURNED YESTERDAY ALONG ALBIA TOWN SQUARE ON MONDAY. IT DID FORCED EVACUATIONS FOR BUSINESSES AND THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE AT THE APARTMENTS AS WELL. AND ����vlog MARCUS MCINTOSH IS LIVE ON THE ALBIA TOWN SQUARE, WHERE THE TRAGEDY IS BEING FELT BY A LOT OF PEOPLE. MARCUS. IT IS. WE SPOKE TO ABOUT A DOZEN PEOPLE, BOTH ON AND OFF CAMERA AROUND THE SQUARE HERE IN ALBIA WHO SAY THEY ARE HEARTBROKEN BY THE DISCOVERY THIS MORNING. THEY TALK ABOUT THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF LOSING PART OF THE ICONIC KRAMER BUILDING BEHIND ME, BUT SAY NOTHING IS MORE DISTRESSING THAN THE LOSS OF A LIFE. THAT MAKES IT EVEN MORE HEARTBREAKING. LARRY AND SHARON BETTIS GREW UP IN ALBIA, BUT NOW LIVE IN CENTERVILLE. THEY DROVE THE HALF HOUR TO ALBIA TO CHECK OUT THE KRAMER BUILDING AND WHAT IS LEFT OF WHAT ONCE WAS A JCPENNEY. DISAPPOINTED IN WHAT THEY SAW. BUT THAT DISAPPOINTMENT WAS MAGNIFIED WHEN THEY LEARNED SOMEONE DIED IN THE BUILDING FIRE. IT’S DEVASTATING. I KNOW THEY TRIED TO GET EVERYBODY OUT. WE MET A MAN WHO LIVED IN ONE OF THE SECOND FLOOR APARTMENTS ABOVE THE BUSINESSES. HE SAID HE WENT INTO THE HALLWAY MONDAY MORNING, SAW SMOKE, AND STARTED POUNDING ON DOORS TO GET HIS NEIGHBORS OUT. I MISSED ONE. I ONLY GOT SIX OUT. I DON’T FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT. HE SAYS THE SMOKE QUICKLY TOOK OVER THE BUILDING. NOW, 24 HOURS LATER, HE’S WATCHING WHAT’S BEING DONE AND MOURNING THE LOSS. I SHOULD HAVE KICKED NUMBER SIX IN. FIREFIGHTERS ARE ALSO FEELING HIS PAIN. THEY KNEW THERE WERE REPORTS THAT ONE RESIDENT OF THE APARTMENTS WAS UNACCOUNTED FOR. AT ABOUT 830 THIS MORNING. THEIR WORST FEARS WERE CONFIRMED. WE WENT IN TO DO A SEARCH AND RIGHT AWAY FOUND A VICTIM. AT THIS TIME, THE NAME OF THE VICTIM IS NOT BEING RELEASED. BUT ALBIA FIRE CHIEF JOHN FRESHWATER WAS ABLE TO TELL US WHERE THE REMAINS WERE FOUND. WE BELIEVE IT WAS IN THE ORIGIN OF THE ROOM THAT THE FIRE STARTED IN. NOW, THIS EVENING, IT’S NOT CLEAR EXACTLY HOW THE FIRE STARTED. BUT CHIEF FRESHWATER TELLS US IN HIS 30 YEARS ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THIS IS THE FIRST LOSS OF LIFE THEY’VE HAD DUE TO A FIRE. WE’RE LIVE IN ALBIA. I’M MARC