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Northwest Atlanta home heavily damaged by predawn fire

By Mike Morris
Jan 15, 2015

No injuries were reported Thursday in a predawn fire that heavily damaged a northwest Atlanta home.

The fire broke out before 5 a.m. at a house in the 1100 block of Northwest Drive.

Fire investigators were on the scene trying to determine what sparked the blaze.

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