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Providence firefighters extinguished a fire at a three-story house at 610 Union Avenue this morning.

PROVIDENCE -- An early morning fire in the Silver Lake neighborhood filled a three-story house with smoke. All the residents escaped safely.

Firefighters arrived at 610 Union Avenue at 7:19 this morning. It took several companies about 45 minutes to put the flames out.

The fire appears to have started on the first floor.

Amara Ezeamama, who owns the house with her husband, Bright Onye, said she woke up to the smell of smoke, and the sounds of their house being destroyed.

"We heard the cracking of windows before the fire department got here," Ezeamama said.

She woke Onye, who had just gotten home from work.

"I was fast asleep when my wife started waking me up and telling me "'there's smoke, there's smoke,'" he said.

"I quickly got up, looked at our apartment; there was smoke. I went down to the second floor, there's more smoke. I was like, 'where is my tenant?'"

The tenant, Pedro Cabral, who lived on the second floor, said the smoke was "really thick" when he got out.

He said he wanted to go back in to get his stuff, but, he said, "I knew better." Cabral said this is the second time he's had to escape from a burning house.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

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