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Fire Breaks Out in Flatbush Building

Theodore Parisienne

By Theodore Parisienne on May 15, 2012 4:19pm

Firefighters on their way to fight a fire at 712 East 27th St. in Brooklyn on Tuesday May 15, 2012

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BROOKLYN — A fire broke out in a Flatbush building Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

An apartment on the fifth floor of 712 E. 27th St., near Campus and Glen roads, caught fire just after 2:30 p.m., an FDNY spokesman said.

Some 60 firefighters from 12 units extinguished the blaze in about 30 minutes, he added.

No one was injured in the fire.

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