Montpelier fire forces tenants from eight-unit building

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MONTPELIER — A fire that started when a maintenance person was thawing frozen pipes has forced an unknown number of tenants of an eight-unit building out of their apartments.Montpelier Fire Department Lt. Dana Huoppi said the fire broke out in the basement of the four-story building at 197 Main St., at the corner of Main and Loomis Streets,mid-morning and quickly spread between the interior and exterior walls.Two apartments on the bottom floor, which is below g