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A Los Angeles Fire Department captain was injured Tuesday when a pressurized gas cylinder exploded at a homeless encampment.
Firefighters responded to a debris fire at about 3 a.m. to the 7500 block of South Normandie Avenue in the Manchester Square area. The captain suffered a non-life-threatening injury when the cylinder exploded at the encampment in an abandoned subterranean tunnel in the South Los Angeles community.
The captain was taken to a hospital in fair condition.
No other injuries were reported. Details about a cause of the fire were not immediately available.
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