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Firefighters Stretch Hose From Station To Burning Home

PARKER, Colo. (CBS4)- Some firefighters in Parker proved why it's a good thing to live close to the fire station.

South Metro Fire Rescue crews smelled smoke and saw flames shooting from a town home just a few hundred yards from the station on Thursday.

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They stretched a fire hose from the fire hydrant near the station to a fire engine parked on the corner of the station's parking lot and stretched that hose to the burning building on Bayfield Way.

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Just minutes later they had the fire out.

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The person living there was able to escape.

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