TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A man was killed and a woman was critically injured in a Florida house fire, authorities said.
Leon County deputies and Tallahassee firefighters responded to the burning home in a subdivision northwest of the city early Wednesday morning, according to a sheriff’s office news release.
Two deputies entered the house and carried the woman outside, officials said. Firefighters retrieved the man. Both were taken to a Tallahassee hospital, where the man succumbed to his injuries. The woman remained in critical condition.
Officials weren’t immediately naming the victims.
The cause of the blaze remained under investigation.
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