A fire gutted two floors of a Jewish school building in Harrisburg, Pa. No one was injured in the Yom Kippur fire and an adjacent synagogue was not damaged. An agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said the fire was deliberately set.
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