Santa Monica Fire Department is investigating an early Sunday morning blaze that claimed the lives of an elderly couple living in a two-story home.<\/p>\n
The department has yet to release the identities of the victims who lived in the older English Tudor-style home in the 500 block of Lincoln Boulevard, but their relatives have been notified, according to A Platoon Battalion Chief James Altman.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded to a call shortly before 3 a.m. and found the home engulfed in flames. <\/p>\n
Altman said fire crews found two bodies in the first-floor bedroom of the residence. They were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The couple at the residence were in their 90s and usually had a caretaker with them. But no one was on duty at the time, Altman said.<\/p>\n
The department has yet to determine a cause for the fire, Altman said.<\/p>\n
The Lincoln blaze was Santa Monica\u2019s second fatal residential blaze in recent months. An elderly man died after a June 5 fire broke out in a second-floor apartment in a building in the 2600 block of 5th Street. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Monica Fire Department is investigating an early Sunday morning blaze that claimed the lives of an elderly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24012,6236,2789,7,9,8,6246,36693,170501,25896,26504,170505,91593,3292,170502,170504,315,170503],"class_list":["post-428390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-altman","tag-block","tag-body","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-department","tag-duty","tag-elderly-couple","tag-fire-crew","tag-flame","tag-lincoln-blaze","tag-lincoln-boulevard","tag-residence","tag-santa-monica-home-fire","tag-second-fatal-residential-blaze","tag-time","tag-two-story-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}