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Facts Behind The Fire: What Happened

So how did the West Roxbury fire spread? Fire officials explain how the blaze started in the Tai-Ho Mandarin and Cantonese restaurant and eventually lead to the deaths of two Boston firefighters.

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Fire officials say for an hour -- even as people worked in the kitchen and ate in the restaurant -- the fire was burning in an eight-inch crawl space between the ceiling and the roof, where cooking grease had accumulated in a flue.

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