
Firefighters extinguishing a blaze that destroyed a heavily cluttered Mission Hills home Tuesday found the bodies of two people inside the gutted structure.
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Flames began spreading through the house in the 1700 block of Fort Stockton Drive for unknown reasons about 5 a.m., according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
It took crews just under an hour to get the blaze under control, after which they discovered the unidentified victims.
“The high amount of items inside the home … made the fire burn very quickly and very hot, which made it difficult for crews to extinguish,” SDFRD spokeswoman Monica Munoz said.
Neighbors told news crews a bedridden woman and her adult daughter lived in the home.
A passer-by watching the firefighting operation tripped and hurt himself slightly, Munoz said. Medics treated and released him at the scene.
The estimated monetary losses were set at $250,000 to the structure and $20,000 to contents.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation in the early afternoon.
— City News Service
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