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Nearly 1,000 people were evacuated from a Lower Manhattan courthouse this morning because of a fire that's thought to have started in a wooden contractor's shed or in the building's basement. Around 10:30 a.m. defendants were taken back to their cells in another building when smoke began to fill the lobby at 100 Centre Street, reports the Post. According to NY1 the fire was under control in under two hours, leaving five FDNY workers, two civilians and one prisoner with minor injuries. Unhappy evacuees were ordered to the street and told the building would be closed for the day. Some came to attend the sentencing of rapper Lil Wayne, which will be postponed, like all of the cases on the court's docket.