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Fire Rips Through Abandoned USC Frat House
Nobody Injured In Overnight Blaze
POSTED: 7:58 am PDT April 21, 2005
UPDATED: 8:04 am PDT April 21, 2005
LOS ANGELES -- Nobody was injured in a fast-burning fire at an abandoned two-story USC fraternity house overnight.
Images: Abandoned Frat House Fire
The fire was reported just past midnight at 1005 28th St., according to Los Angeles Fire Capt. James Littlefield.
About 125 firefighters had the blaze extinguished about two hours later, Littlefield said.
The fraternity house was abandoned a couple years ago, when the residing Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter was kicked off the USC campus. Fraternity members told NBC4 the house has been empty since 2003.
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I'm just glad that no one was living there, so hopefully no one was hurt... and I'm wondering just how it got started.
