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Firefighter rescues sleeping man from Yorktown fire

A volunteer firefighter rescued a sleeping man and his cat from a house fire in Yorktown Wednesday. The firefighter is a town employee who happened to be passing the house on Douglas Drive when he saw

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Aug 16, 2006, 5:40 PM

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