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Laverne Cosby, right, recounts the mornings events of a house fire at her home on Elmwood Street in Waterloo Monday to local authorities. Cosby's nephew, Davon Matlock, seven, was the first to see the smoke and woke the family. Monday August 8, 2008. (MORGAN HAWTHORNE / Courier Staff Photographer)