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Police officer's family displaced by fire

WATERMAN – It’s the kind of call every police officer hopes they never get – one at their own home.

Jason Swanson, a Waterman police officer, was on duty just after 11 a.m. Nov. 7 when his wife called and told him the clothes dryer was smoking. By the time Swanson arrived at the house, black smoke was pouring out of the dryer vent and a second-floor bedroom window.

Swanson said he called the fire department, then went into the house with a fire extinguisher.

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