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Two Injured in West Modesto House Fire
MODESTO – A fire at a duplex home in West Modesto late Friday afternoon injured two people.
At about 4:40pm firefighters were dispatched to a duplex home on the 1700 block of Erie Avenue for a report of a fire. The duplex sits just east of Robertson Road Elementary School.
Arriving fire personnel reported heavy smoke conditions from the front of one of the duplex units. Additional firefighters responding to combat the blaze soon encountered heavy fire.
Within 15 minutes, the fire appeared to be under control, but not before also damaging the neighboring unit. A damage estimate was not available at time of publication.
A man and a woman were assisted by medical personnel into waiting ambulances for care of unspecified injuries.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
