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One person died after an apartment fire in Duncan that had people jumping from windows, at least one person rescued by fire department ladder, and caused dozens to be displaced.The person who died . . .

B.C. Emergency Health Services said the fire call came in at 12:55 p.m. on Thursday. It dispatched 10 ground ambulances and one air ambulance to the four-storey apartment complex at 2574 Lewis St. Videos shared online showed flames shooting out the window of a top floor unit and black smoke pouring out of an ­adjacent window. Dale Doebert and his wife were driving by the scene when they saw two men balancing on a window frame below them and holding onto a top-floor window sill above them before they dropped. The window from which they fell was spewing clouds of black smoke.