BERKELEY — A hearth at a home early Monday killed one particular person and hospitalized three others, authorities mentioned.
A household pet additionally perished within the blaze, in keeping with a press release from Berkeley Fireplace spokesperson Dafina Dailey. Of the three different folks hospitalized, one remained in crucial situation Monday afternoon, she mentioned.
Authorities didn’t identify the lifeless particular person instantly, pending affirmation if their id and notification of kin. Rescue personnel rushed that particular person to a hospital, and the particular person died there.
The fireplace was the primary of two deadly ones in Alameda County early Monday. The opposite blaze — a two-alarm hearth at an Oakland warehouse — killed a lady.
Firefighters responded to the1000 block of Cedar Avenue about 4:35 a.m. and noticed the single-family residential home in flames and smoke.
Crews broke an exterior window to get inside and pull out the 4 folks from the house, Dailey mentioned. They later introduced the hearth beneath management.
As of two p.m. Monday, investigators had not decided how or the place it began.
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