Residents Evacuated After Fire Breaks Out

Alameda County firefighters responded to a fire early this morning
at a home in Castro Valley where the sleeping occupants awoke to fire outside
their window.

The fire began in a car that was parked next to a two-story building with four adjoining units at 2519 Denning Court at about 1 a.m., said Battalion Chief John Walsh.

A woman and her teenage daughter were sleeping in one of the units when the fire broke out. They awoke to a popping sound and saw the fire outside their window, Walsh said.

The woman and her daughter escaped without injury.

Deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrived and helped evacuate the other residents of the four-unit building and no one was injured.

Authorities said the fire spread from the car to the wood-sided building, where it spread up the side of the house, burned through the second-story window and set fire to a bedroom.

Firefighters contained the single-alarm fire within 15 minutes.

Bay City News Service