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Couple killed in Washington Heights apartment fire

Family members said that 77-year-old Maria Soledad Taveras and her 74-year-old husband Luciano Taveras lived in their Washington Heights apartment for decades, but they couldn’t get out when a fire broke out Tuesday morning. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

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