Apartment fire in University Heights leaves 2 displaced

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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A two-story apartment caught fire in University Heights Saturday, and two people were displaced.

The blaze was reported around 12:20 a.m. at the apartment complex on Campus Avenue and Madison Avenue, a San Diego Fire-Rescue dispatcher said.

Smoke could be seen from the first and second floor. The fire was believed to start in a unit on the bottom floor, the dispatcher said.

The building was evacuated and crews extinguished the flames by 1 a.m.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

No one was injured, the dispatcher said, but the fire caused an estimated $125,000 in damage.

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