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One dead, one seriously hurt after fire breaks out in Lowell

The fire on Appleton Street in Lowell, Massachusetts, is being treated as a crime scene, according to police

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First responders were on the scene of a fire Friday night.

One person died and a second was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a fire broke out Friday night in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The state fire marshal's office confirmed firefighters responded to the fire on Appleton Street around 9:10 p.m. When they arrived, one person was still inside the home. Firefighters tried to make a rescue, but the person was unresponsive and pronounced dead on scene. They have not been identified.

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A second person was found outside the building with serious injuries and taken to the hospital.

"My husband, Mike, he said, 'Listen, there's smoke coming down from the second floor, we've got to get out,'" one woman said.

She added that her husband saw someone fall from a window on the second floor.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Lowell Fire Department, Lowell Police Department, State Police assigned to the Middlesex DA’s office, and State Police fire investigators assigned to the State Fire Marshal’s office.  Police told NBC10 Boston it was being treated as a crime scene.

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