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Appliance fire shuts down Fountain Boulevard Friday afternoon, one displaced

Apartment Fire
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Springs Fire Department responded to a fire in an apartment along Fountain Boulevard Friday afternoon.

The road was closed in all directions at Chelton Road. Firefighters had the fire under control around 1 p.m.

The department says the cause of the fire was accidental and appeared to have started from a malfunctioning appliance. The fire was in a single unit of an apartment complex at 3165 Fountain Boulevard.

No one was injured but one person has been displaced because of the fire.
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