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Brothers Give Their Own Christmas Gifts To Children Displaced By Downtown Minneapolis Fire

Firefighters got the call around 3 a.m. Christmas morning.

(CBS Minnesota)

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Nineteen hours after it started, a fire continued to burn Christmas night at a building that houses the homeless in downtown Minneapolis.

Firefighters got the call around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. They say the fire started on the second floor of the Drake Hotel, located on the 400 block of 10th Street South, and quickly spread through the building. Flames could be seen shooting from the roof in the pre-dawn hours.

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