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Customer sets phone and carpet on fire at store 

audio iconFire & Arson
Near Wal-Mart Drive, Kingwood, WV 26537
A customer at a U.S. Cellular store in Kingwood set a phone on fire, damaging the phone and the carpet, with the fire currently smoldering.
Audio|Source: Preston County Fire and EMS
00:40

Transcript:
(Name withheld) We're at 248 Walmart Drive at U.S. Cellular Kingwood, Time Alert, 1654[1]. I acknowledge you anything further. Company 5 that's copy 1658[2]. It's going to be a U.S. Cellular. Customer was in there, threw a phone destroyed it. It caught the phone on fire, also caught the carpet on fire. Right now it is just smoldering.

Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
1654: Time Alert (Incident logged at 16:54)
[2]
1658: Incident update at 16:58

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Location mentioned:
Near Wal-Mart Drive, Kingwood, WV 26537
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