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A Texas Walmart was set on fire — and officials say it was deliberate (WMT)

A shopper in a Walmart in Texas on Wednesday recorded footage of flames reaching the ceiling of the store.

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  • People doing last-minute pre-Thanksgiving shopping were forced to evacuate the store.
  • An official says someone deliberately set two fires.
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A massive fire in a Texas Walmart was caught on camera by a local shopper.

On Wednesday evening, shoppers were forced to evacuate a Walmart in Cedar Woods, Texas, after two fires — with flames reaching the ceilings — were set in the store, a local news outlet reported.

"Oh my God, why is there a big-a-- fire inside of Walmart right now?" Jackie Sinclair says in a video she posted on Facebook of the fire.

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"This b---- about to blow up," Sinclair says.

The local fire marshal told the news outlet that someone deliberately set two fires in the Walmart and that a suspect, who is not an employee, had been interviewed.

No one was injured, he said.

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