
Infant, woman killed, 10 injured in house fire chief called "hellish"
An infant and woman were killed and ten other people hurt in a house fire in Cincinnati that the city's fire chief described as "hellish."
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An infant and woman were killed and ten other people hurt in a house fire in Cincinnati that the city's fire chief described as "hellish."
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