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Over 700 people were injured. Several years later, while being investigated on other arson charges, Robert Dale Segee (1929–1997), who was an adolescent at the time, confessed to starting the blaze. He was never tried for the crime and later recanted his confession.
(6 July 1944)

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Coldharbour Hospital

Sherborne, Dorset, United Kingdom.

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Eventually the inquiry found the fire had been caused by one of the patients lighting a flame. But the fact that the ward's night nurse and the charge nursed had taken an extended break had allowed the blaze to spread.