By Bill Carey
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PHILADELPHIA — Firefighters extinguished a three-alarm fire that swept through a vacant warehouse in Philadelphia.
Fire companies responded to reports of a fire on the 3000 block of Ruth Street around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 and quickly struck a second alarm, FOX 29 reported.
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Assistant Deputy Fire Commissioner Derek Bowmer told NBC Philadelphia that the structure was a 30-foot-by-100-foot garage that might have been an auto body shop.
Officials said no one was inside the building at the time of the fire.
A third alarm was struck around 8:15 a.m., resulting in over 120 firefighters on the scene.
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