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Article: 7 Dead in W.Va. Apartment Building Fire
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- January 15, 2007
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Fire ravaged an apartment building, killing at least seven people, including a child, and authorities said Sunday that they feared the death count could grow.
The fire broke out in the 64-unit, five-story building late Saturday. Firefighters discovered two bodies and a child on the building's top floor while fighting the blaze, and crews found four more bodies Sunday morning on that floor, Fire Chief Greg Fuller said. The child died on the way to a hospital.
"We have not been able to complete the search," Fuller said. Some of the fifth story was blocked because the building's roof and part of that floor collapsed.
The building housed city residents and Marshall ...