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Article: Michael Flippo seeks new trial: Request opens door to ugly past
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- October 13, 2002
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It was the first day of deer season, and members of the Nitro Fire
Department were doubling up their shifts while some members took off
for the annual ritual.
Ernie Hedrick, now the acting fire chief, was on the truck going
to put out a fire at the Main Avenue Church of God on Nov. 21, 1988.
"There was heavy, black, pungent smoke coming out from all four
sides when we got there. It had an awfully good start for that time
in the morning," he remembered. The fire was reported at about 8 a.m.
The Rev. James Michael Flippo was pastor of the church where the
fire broke out. His late wife, Cheryl Flippo, was quoted in a
newspaper article written days after the fire as ...