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2 rescued from Houston house fire
Firefighters helped two people escape a burning house after fire spread from next door.
HOUSTON - Firefighters rescued two people from a burning house in northeast Houston on Wednesday morning.
The fire was reported shortly before 3 a.m. in the 1700 block of Hailey Street.
Firefighters at the scene of a fire.
Firefighters say they were actually woken up by a man who went to the front door of the station and said the house was on fire.
Firefighters responded to find a one-story house engulfed in flames and fire spreading to the attic of a two-story house next door.
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Officials say firefighters helped two people, who are handicapped, get out of the two-story house. They were taken to the hospital to be checked out.
The fire department says no one was in the one-story house.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.