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Fire breaks out at Rowan County home

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. — Firefighters are trying to determine what caused a house fire early Monday morning in Rowan County.

The fire started shortly before 5 a.m. at a house on Pine Lake Drive, which is southeast of Salisbury.

Several departments responded, and it took firefighters about an hour and a half to get the flames out.

The homeowner was not inside at the time of the fire.