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  • Fire investigators believe that the Wednesday morning blaze originated in the fifth-floor hallway. where a mattress and other furniture were found.

    Arson investigators still probing fatal blaze Washington Post editors 2010

  • Halstead Property, LLC Located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the fifth-floor unit has beamed ceilings that are more than nine feet high.

    Urban Homes for Empty Nesters 2011

  • When their youngest child went off to college, the couple, now in their 50s, decided to sell their fifth-floor apartment, said Sandy Liu, of Hong Kong Sotheby's International Realty, which is brokering the property.

    A Family Home on the Peak 2011

  • Three people tried to climb down a tree to safety from their fifth-floor apartments, firefighters said.

    Arson investigators still probing fatal blaze Washington Post editors 2010

  • Volodya grew up in a single, twenty-square-meter room within a fifth-floor communal apartment a couple of miles from the Winter Palace.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • It takes a lot to stop New Yorkers in their tracks, but a peacock perched precariously on the fifth-floor window sill of a posh condominium building did just that on Tuesday.

    Proud Escapee Turns Heads Sumathi Reddy 2011

  • Mr. Pan has rented a fifth-floor office in Chinatown for about two years and comes by frequently, said the building's administrator, Ni Ji Xiong.

    Fund-Raiser for Liu Faces Charges Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • On Friday, fire marshals said they had traced the origins of the fatal fire to a fifth-floor apartment that had hosted voodoo ceremony meant to bring the woman who lived there good luck.

    Fire Blamed on Voodoo Rite Sean Gardiner 2011

  • But authorities said Sunday the 27-year-old Dominican Republic native was using his fifth-floor apartment as a factory for making bombs to use in attacks against police patrol cars, post offices and members of the military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Suspect Plotted From Apartment Pervaiz Shallwani 2011

  • The fifth-floor condos are next to each other but aren't currently connected.

    Deal May Boost Plaza's Fortunes Craig Karmin 2011

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