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Spirit Lake, IA (northwestiowanow.com) — A Spirit Lake city employee escaped injury this morning. Fire Chief Pat Daly says the driver of a street sweep jumped off the machine just before it burst into flames around 7am.
The Spirit Lake Fire Department was on the scene for about an hour.
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