UPDATE: Home heavily damaged during fire near Chapel Hill

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By Brett Collar - email

A home was heavily damaged after being involved in a fire Sunday afternoon near the Chapel Hill area.

The home is in the 10-thousand block of County Road 233, just east of Chapel Hill.

About half of the home is a total loss,while the rest of the home received smoke damage.

Nobody was home at the time of the fire. The homeowner tells us he came home and found his bedroom on fire. He is waiting to hear from the insurance company.

The cause of the fire is believed to be an electrical problem. Nobody was injured in this fire.

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