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A joint investigation has launched into the cause of a fire after two people and a dog were saved from a flat at one of the busiest junctions to the city.Firefighters used a ladder to reach the first-floor of the Alfreton Road home to rescue a man, woman and Staffordshire Terrier overcome by smoke from a fire on the ground floor.Firemen found the residents had lain on their fronts in the building.Read more: Newark Castle grounds shut due to high windsThey were rescued through the right window at