INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - Authorities say two people have died in less than 24 hours in separate Kansas City area apartment fires.
Independence officials said that one of the victims died Monday at a hospital after being pulled from a blaze at the Hocker Heights complex. A first responder also was treated for a minor injury. The fire was contained to a single unit.
The Kansas City Fire Department said the second victim died early Tuesday at a hospital after a fire in her ground-floor unit. She was in her 60s.
No other information was immediately released about the blazes, including the causes or the names of the victims.
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