Fire breaks out at St. Paul homeless encampment
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Firefighters battled a blaze overnight Wednesday at a homeless encampment near Downtown St. Paul.
A WCCO photojournalist was at the scene along East 4th Street near the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary.
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WCCO has reached out to the St. Paul Fire Department to learn the extent of the damage, and whether anyone was hurt.
The fire comes just hours after police cleared a Minneapolis homeless encampment Tuesday known as Camp Nenookaasi for the second time this month.
The Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary is home to Wakan Tipi, a cave sacred to the Dakota people and other Indigenous tribes.
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