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A man has been taken to hospital after a house fire at Lake Macquarie on Sunday.
Emergency crews were called to the Argenton home just before 8am, where they found a house well alight.
They also found a man who had collapsed outside the property.
Paramedics took the man to hospital.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze in less than one hour.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.