{"id":478367,"date":"2026-09-28T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478367\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:11:22","slug":"rio-linda-house-heavily-damaged-in-fire-dog-found-dead-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478367\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Linda house heavily damaged in fire, dog found dead inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rio Linda family escaped an early-morning house fire Sunday after working smoke alarms woke them as flames spread into the home, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Fire of Sacramento crews were called to a home on U Street just before 5 a.m. and arrived to find the house heavily involved in flames.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner told firefighters she first noticed a wall that felt warm, then saw an orange glow outside. As she went to investigate, a window broke and the fire spread into the house.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke alarms sounded inside the home, waking the family and giving everyone time to get out safely, Metro Fire said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rio-linda-house-fire.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"rio-linda-house-fire.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>                Metro Fire of Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>Two adults suffered minor smoke inhalation and were evaluated at the scene. Neither needed to be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The home sustained major fire and smoke damage. One dog was found dead inside the house, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Fire investigators are working to determine what caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials used the incident to remind residents to test smoke alarms regularly, especially as cooler weather approaches and daylight saving time ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Rio Linda family escaped an early-morning house fire Sunday after working smoke alarms woke them as flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35644,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-478367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-rio-linda","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478367","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=478367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}