Teen dies in house fire on Central Coast

An early morning house fire on the Central Coast Tuesday left one person dead, and two injured.
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Two others were injured in the early morning blaze on Tuesday.

A fire on the Central Coast has left a teenage girl dead.

The blaze was reported just after 1:30 Tuesday morning on West Tefft Street in Nipomo.

Firefighters arrived to find flames coming from both levels of a two story home.

Two people were taken to a hospital with injuries. The teenager was on the second floor of the home. She was pronounced dead at the scene. There’s no word on the cause of the fire.

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Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.