The bodies of a man and dog were found in El Cajon Saturday morning by firefighters responding to a house fire, according to Heartland Fire & Rescue officials.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded to 1433 Melody Lane shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, where arriving crews found the front of the house fully involved with flames. Due to a report of a potential victim still in the home, they entered the structure under “emergency rescue mode,” Heartland Fire PIO Andy McKellar said.<\/p>\n
“Crews searched the home and unfortunately discovered the body of a deceased male. A deceased dog was also found in the dwelling,” McKellar said. “No other remains, or injured people, were found.”<\/p>\n
The fire was knocked down about 15 minutes after the first crews arrived, at around 2:15 a.m., and appeared to have started in or near a bedroom, McKellar said. The cause was under investigation.<\/p>\n
A total of 17 fire personnel were on scene with no reports of injuries to responders.<\/p>\n
In addition to Heartland Fire & Rescue, cooperating agencies for the response included the El Cajon Police Department, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, the Santee Fire Department, Lakeside Fire Protection District and San Miguel Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of a man and dog were found in El Cajon Saturday morning by firefighters responding to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6568,175,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-441883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-el-cajon","tag-fires","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441883","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=441883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}