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Fire injures 3, destroys Rutland Road apartment

A fire destroyed a first-floor apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens Saturday morning and forced a tenant to leap out of a window to safety. Firefighters say flames broke out inside a first-floor apartment

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Dec 20, 2008, 8:49 PM

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