Fire Destroys Donations.

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A Halloween-night fire destroyed about half of the 8,000 books that had been donated for a new community library in the small Arizona town of Humboldt.

The blaze gutted a home owned by Betty Comfort and her husband. Comfort, a member of the town's Community Action Project who has been working with the Dewey-Humboldt Library Committee, has been storing the books donated by residents since 2001. A spokesman for the Central Yavapai Fire Department said the fire may have started in an old furnace. Arson is not suspected. The new library building is scheduled to open in the spring.