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House Fire Breaks Out On Chilly Morning

Hernando Today photo by BOB EAST III

Spring Hill Fire Rescue Captains Barry Ryczek, left, and Ken Wannen use a thermal imaging camera to look for hot spots inside the walls of a home on Seaview Drive after a fire early today.

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By KYLE MARTIN

Hernando Today

Published: January 16, 2009

SPRING HILL - Nicole Luker awoke Thursday morning to a house full of smoke.

She hastily grabbed her 8-year-old daughter and two dogs, then did a quick room search to make sure her 12-year-old son had left for school. With the smoke growing thicker by the minute, Luker stepped outside into the frigid morning.

From her position in the front yard of 3295 Seaview Drive, she could see the black smoke was rolling out in earnest from behind the trailer.

"That's when we knew that there was no going back," she said over the rumble of the Spring Hill fire engines lining narrow Seaview Drive in Weeki Wachee Acres, just east of U.S. 19.

Fire officials believe the blaze began in the heating ducts.

Photographer Bob East contributed to this report. Reporter Kyle Martin can be reached at 352-544-5271 or kmartin@hernandotoday.com.

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