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Weather across Idaho causes disruptions, fire

05:15 PM MST on Saturday, January 3, 2009

Associated Press

BOISE -- While skies over Boise were clear, much of Idaho experienced havoc as storms deposited lots of snow.

In northern Idaho, another 7 inches fell Friday, a Jan. 2 record.

In Hayden, heavy snow sliding off a building severed a natural gas line, sparking a fire that burned for seven hours at the Warren K Industrial park and caused $1 million in damage. There were no injuries.

Meanwhile, in eastern Idaho, snows in Fremont County caused flooding as the Arcadia Canal near St. Anthony overflowed its banks.

Slick roads were a factor in two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 20, which resulted in two people transported to Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg by ambulance.

And fire crews in Island Park near the Montana border are blaming a buildup of snow and ice for bending a conduit and causing an electrical fire that destroyed an unoccupied cabin.

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