Family displaced by fire in El Cajon home just before Thanksgiving
Nov 24, 2024
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- A family was displaced ahead of Thanksgiving after a fire broke out in their El Cajon home Sunday afternoon.
Calls came in around 4:12 p.m. Sunday for a fire in a home in the 1500 block of Broadway in El Cajon.
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Firefighters were able to knock down the fire in just seven minutes.
The Heartland Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Brent Baum told FOX 5/KUSI the fire began in the garage and spread to the kitchen where it was able to be contained.
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The Red Cross was called in to assist the family of four and their pet. No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.