Police: 7 dead in separate parts of Florida likely linked
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Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale
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Firefighters in Sarasota County saved someone on the 17th floor of a construction site by using a tower crane to get them down.
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Fort Lauderdale police were called to conduct a welfare check at a home on the 500 block of Northeast 15th Street in the Victoria Park neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. and found two adults dead inside, the department said. The department did not say how they were killed.
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