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Six flee Leeds house fire after piles of student rubbish lit.
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Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
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July 5, 2008
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A MOUNTAIN of rubbish left by departing students filled two houses with smoke when it was set on fire in Leeds.
Six people escaped from the houses which had to be ventilated by firefighters.
Fire crews from Leeds central fire station in Kirkstall Road were called to the fire in Spring Grove Walk at Burley at 5.34pm on Wednesday evening.
Fire crews said they could see clouds of thick smoke before they got to the fire.
One of the firefighters said: "It was a big pile of rubbish right up against the cellar window. The cellar window had gone through, ...