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Neighbor heard boom before Riverdale fire killed family members

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A man who lives next door to the Riverdale home that burned this week, killing at least four members of a family, said he heard a loud boom right before the fire started. It just jolted me out of my sleep, said Derrick Marks, a new firefighter serving another community.

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