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Officials: Fire Inside Rowhome Kills Mother, Toddler In Lancaster County

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) -- Investigators say a trash can left on a stove started a fire that killed a mother and her 2-year old daughter in Lancaster County. The fire started Saturday morning at a row home in Columbia.

It took about 100 firefighters 45 minutes to get the flames under control.

According to investigators, there were no working smoke detectors in the home.

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