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An out-of-control garbage fire outside of a cigarette factory was the cause of last Thursday afternoon’s temporary closure of Route 207.

Angie Diabo had always wanted to be a teacher, but that couldn’t be her first priority - she had children to feed and clothe, bills to pay, and working at a cigarette factory paid well and enabled her to make ends meet.

Early Sunday morning, a fire of still unknown origins fully engulfed and destroyed a Quonset hut steel structure next to the BFK Cigarette store on Route 207.

The interior of Rainbow Tobacco's cigarette factory was destroyed in a suspicious fire on August 13. (Courtesy Kameron Lahache) A fire that’s been ruled suspicious in the wee hours of last Sunday morning raged through the Rainbow Tobacco operation, and caused the proprietor to close the business for more than a week.