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House explosion kills fire battalion chief, a rising star

A battalion chief who had been considered a rising star in the Fire Department of New York was killed Tuesday when a row house exploded as he was supervising an evacuation following a report of a gas

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Sep 27, 2016, 11:26 PM

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