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Sunshine house fire damages lounge, roof

Authorities are investigating a single-storey house fire in Sunshine on Monday afternoon.

Fire crews attended the blaze at Ballarat Road and Duke Street just before 2pm. It started in a corner of the front lounge room. 

A portion of the lounge room and a section of the roof was severely damaged.

Nobody was inside the house at the time of the fire which was brought under control in 10 minutes.

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