Firefighters throughout the South Bay responded to 2 fires Wednesday that both broken or destroyed properties in San Jose and Mountain View.
A two-alarm fireplace erupted about 12:20 p.m., sending firefighters scrambling to a home on the 100 block of Scharff Avevue in East San Jose, in accordance with the San Jose Hearth Division. Hearth crews managed to deliver the flames underneath management by 12:34 p.m., the company reported on the social media web site X, previously referred to as Twitter.
Quite a few particulars, together with whether or not anybody was injured within the blaze or whether or not anybody was dwelling when the flames erupted, remained unclear early Wednesday afternoon.
The hearth got here a number of hours after a pre-dawn blaze in Mountain View.
The hearth started shortly earlier than 3:30 a.m. on the 1400 block of Ernestine Lane, in accordance with the Mountain View Hearth Division. When firefighters arrived, all the folks dwelling inside the home had already managed to flee whereas smoke bellowed from a storage hooked up to the home, the company reported.
Firefighters managed to cease the flames from spreading to the remainder of the home. Nonetheless, emergency crews needed to minimize utility service to the house throughout the fireplace, leaving two adults and three youngsters displaced from the blaze, the fireplace division stated. One individual dwelling on the home was evaluated by paramedics, however opted in opposition to going to hospital for additional care; the precise nature of these accidents remained unclear.
The causes of each fires remained underneath investigation Wednesday afternoon.
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