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2 women, 1 girl die from Philly row house fire
[March 30, 2009] PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fire officials say two women and a young girl have died as a result of a fast-moving row house fire that broke out just after midnight in North Philadelphia.
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Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says a woman who jumped from a second-story window taken to a Hahnemann University Hospital with burns and a head injury was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. The commissioner says when firefighters entered the two-story house they found a woman and a pre-teenage girl dead in an upstairs bedroom. There was no immediate word on the causes of death. Ayers called the blaze a "hot, fast fire" and said those on the second floor "didn't have a chance." He says the cause of the fire is under investigation. |
