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One man found dead after house fire in Dallas late Thursday

A man died in a house fire in Dallas on Thursday night.

Firefighters responded to a house in the 5300 block of Belmont Avenue about 9 p.m., WFAA-TV reported, finding heavy black smoke billowing from the back of the house.

Firefighters doused the fire quickly and found a the body of a man inside, according to Dallas Fire-Rescue. His identity was not immediately released, and a cause of the fire was not released early Friday. No one else was inside when the fire started.

Mark David Smith: 817-390-7808, @MarkSmith_FWST

This story was originally published December 30, 2016 at 6:48 AM with the headline "One man found dead after house fire in Dallas late Thursday."

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