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Man Dies In San Jose Apartment Fire
POSTED: 10:37 am PDT March 25,
2008
UPDATED: 12:38 pm PDT March 25,
2008
SAN JOSE -- A man has died of his injuries suffered when a two-alarm fire raced through a San Jose apartment complex early Tuesday morning, according to fire officials.San Jose Fire Department officials said that at about 7:25 a.m. a woman smelled smoke as she was cooking in a unit of a building at 150 Graham Ave. The woman looked outside of her apartment and saw smoke coming from a neighbor's unit. She knocked on the neighbor's door, but was unable to alert the resident of the fire. The woman then evacuated the complex alongside her own children and other residents of the building. Upon arrival, firefighters saw smoke coming from the second-floor unit. Fire personnel managed to enter the burning unit and pulled a man out of the building, fire officials said. Firefighters initiated medical treatment and CPR on the victim at the scene before transporting the man, who sustained critical injuries, to an area hospital where he died. A total of approximately 65 firefighters brought the blaze under control at 8:08 a.m., according to Alvarado. The fire caused an estimated $40,000 of damage to the structure and $10,000 of damage to contents, Alvarado said. Fire investigators remained at the building in an effort to determine the cause of the blaze.
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