Elderly couple dies in Santa Monica home fire

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Set us as preferred 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.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.Firefighters responded to a call shortly before 3 a.m.and found the home engulfed in flames.

Altman said fire crews found two bodies in the first-floor bedroom of the residence.They were pronounced dead at the scene.The couple at the residence was in their 90s and usually had a caretaker with them.

But no one was on duty at the time, Altman said.The department has yet to determine a cause for the fire, Altman said.The Lincoln blaze was Santa Monica’s 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.

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