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Twitter user @veisandrew posted a cellphone picture of an NBC truck burning up on the 405 freeway in Sepulveda Pass. "Hey @NBCLA I think your news van is on fire!," he tweeted, sensibly enough. A few minutes later, the channel's Twitter acount replied: "Update on our truck fire. No injuries."
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