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Fire quickly burned through a four-apartment house early Thursday on Staten Island, killing a mother and her four children. The children were 2, 7, 10 and 14, and lived with their mother in a second-floor apartment of the two-story building, fire officials said. All the tenants in the other three apartments got out safely.WCBS reports that firefighters said they found no evidence of a smoke detector in the home.Neighbors identified the dead woman as Lisa Jones and said she attended a beau
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Despite the many wonders of our modern cell ph
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