FATAL FIRE IN GREENUP

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One person has died after a fire in Greenup Tuesday night. The Cumberland County Coroners Office reports that firefighters were called out just after 10:30 p.m. to the Greenup Inn located at the intersection of U.S. Route 40 and Illinois Route 130. The fire was confined to a single room at the motel and the deceased was a guest in that room and pronounced dead at the scene. There has been no release of the identity of the deceased pending notification of next of kin. A cause for the fire remains under investigation.