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Kids left home alone accidentally start fire

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By ABC13
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
HOUSTON Firefighters were called to an apartment building on Barberry near Scott around 11pm. When fire crews arrived, smoke was pouring from an upstairs unit. Inside was a stove with burning food on top of it and two children under the age of ten. There were no adults in the apartment.

Firefighters turned the kids over to their grandparents.

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