Fire burned a portion of a house in Santa Rosa’s historic Luther Burbank neighborhood early Wednesday, causing about $50,000 in damage and displacing a family of four, officials said.
The fire on Mill Street near Brown Street was reported at 4:14 a.m., Santa Rosa Fire Battalion Chief Ken Sebastiani said.
Firefighters arrived within four minutes to find the occupants dousing the flames with garden hoses, Sebastiani said.
The blaze appeared to start outside the one-story house between it and a detached garage, but it quickly burned through the home’s siding and entered the kitchen, Sebastiani said. Crews were able to stop it before it spread to the attic, he said.
Two adults and two teenage children were forced out, in part because gas and electricity were shut off, he said.
The cause is under investigation.
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