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FORT DODGE, Iowa — Fort Dodge firefighters battled a fire at the Westridge Townhomes after arriving to find flames showing from a two-story residential building on Sept. 16.
The fire started in a first-floor end unit and spread into the floor system between the first and second stories. Crews advanced a handline, searched the building and brought the main body of fire under control before conducting overhaul.
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