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Cooking fire causes $25,000 in damage
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(WMC-TV) - A cooking oil fire forced 3 children and a pair of adults from their home Thursday night.

Firefighters say the cooking oil burst into flames after it was left on a stove inside a home in the 5300 block of Santa Monica Cove just before 7 p.m.

Crews were able to extinguish the fire in about 20 minutes and no one was injured.

However, the fire caused about $25,000 in damage and forced the residents and their children to seek shelter with the Red Cross.

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