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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A house fire occurred in Pittsburgh yesterday which caused a male firefighter to get injured and a dog to be rescued. The report of the fire came in at about 1:45 a.m. yesterday on a home located on the 1600 block of Duffield Street, near the Stanton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh in Morningside. According to Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief Ed Farley, the fire started in the back of the home in the kitchen and then spread up to the second floor and front of the house. The firefighter who got injured twisted his knee after he fell through a hole in the floor of the home that caught on fire, but he is expected to be OK after getting evaluated at UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. A dog needed to be rescued but three people inside the burning house were able to make it out safely. The cause of this fire is still under investigation.