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State fire officials have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fire in which nanny Alyson Myatt risked her life to rescue a 5-year-old from a burning home.

The fire, which destroyed the house on Golden Rod Court on March 23, apparently had started in a ceiling fan in a bathroom, Shelbyville Fire Chief Willard Tucker said.

The Shelbyville City Council decided not to discuss or vote on entering an Interlocal Finance Corporation with the Kentucky League of Cities at Thursday's meeting.

With several questions still to be asked and answered, Mayor Tom Hardesty decided to remove the resolution from the city's agenda.

Instead the meeting's agenda included just the second readings on ordinances to amend the positions of Administrative Assistant to the Mayor, Deputy City Clerk, Accounts Payable/License Clerk, Receptionist/Clerical and Property Maintenance. All ordinances were passed.

The rains came down and the floods came up in Shelby County this weekend, but the houses upon the rocks stood firm.

For the most part, that sums up the impact locally of the flooding rains that caused death and calamity across Kentucky and other Southern states this past weekend.

Shelby County was drenched with nearly five inches of rain, but the greatest problem was closed roads, limited access and houses that became castles for their residents.

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