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Woman dies in overnight fire in Kansas City, Kan.

A 69-year-old woman died early Sunday in a fire at the Juniper Gardens apartment complex in Kansas City, Kan.

A man was also injured, with burns to his back and feet, and a firefighter was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. No names were released pending notification of family.

Firefighters arrived shortly after 1 a.m. to find heavy fire throughout a four-unit apartment house in the 200 block of North Second Street. They found the woman dead in an upstairs bedroom. The man had made it outside and was taken to a hospital.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

| Mike Hendricks, mhendricks@kcstar.com.

This story was originally published January 25, 2015 at 8:40 AM.

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