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2 bodies found in Coolidge home after a gas line break fire

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Posted at 9:58 AM, Aug 15, 2021
and last updated 2021-08-15 18:58:43-04

COOLIDGE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a man and his teenage daughter are believed dead and a woman was hospitalized with burn injuries after a farmhouse caught fire in Coolidge following a gas line break.

Pinal County Sheriff's officials say the fire broke out around 5:45 a.m. Sunday after numerous people called about hearing a possible explosion near South Highway 87.

Coolidge City Manager Rick Miller said a woman who was inside of the home was airlifted to a hospital with burn injuries.

Coolidge police confirmed two bodies were recovered from the home.

Their names haven't been released yet and their relationship to the injured woman wasn't immediately clear.

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