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Two dead in South LA strip mall fire

By Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio

Published March 28, 2017 7:53am PDT

FOX 11 Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11 / CNS) - Two people were fatally injured Tuesday in a fire at a strip mall in south Los Angeles, authorities said.

Firefighters sent to the 4700 block of South Broadway about 5:35 a.m. gained the upper hand on the flames in about 45 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

A man and a woman were pulled from the building and died at a hospital, the LAFD reported.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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