Fire damages popular Key West site

Published: March. 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM

KEY WEST, Fla., March 9 (UPI) -- Fire damaged an art gallery and crepe shop on Key West's popular Duval Street, authorities in Florida say.

The Sunday night fire heavily damaged the gallery and shop, housed in a building between Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville store and restaurant and the San Carlos Institute, a historic Cuban museum, The Miami Herald reported Monday. No injuries were reported.

Margaritaville and the institute likely sustained smoke damage, said Alyson Crean, a spokeswoman for the Key West Fire Department.

Duval Street runs about a mile from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico and is home to more than 300 businesses, most of them catering to tourists.

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