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Body Found After Firefighters Extinguish Watts House Fire


WATTS (AP) — Firefighters extinguishing a Los Angeles house fire found a body inside a nearby travel trailer that was also engulfed in the flames.

City fire spokesman Brian Humphrey says 37 firefighters responded to the blaze at 12:31 a.m. Wednesday. It took them 18 minutes to knock down the flames.

A body was then found in the travel trailer.

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