SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Seven people were displaced after a fire in Mountain View on Saturday morning, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue.
The fire was reported shortly after 3:30 am on Teak Street, near Ocean View Boulevard. The crews responded quickly and were able to control the fire. The house that caught fire is on a plot with a second house in front, and the house in front was not damaged.
The family and residents of the front house said they believed the fire started from a washer / dryer. They also said they had to pull the bars out of a window to help people escape, with the outside ones pulling and the inside kicking the bars. Four people were injured after climbing the broken window.
Crews say a total of seven people have been displaced and the American Red Cross has been called in to help, but the family at the scene said everyone was fine. They said the hardest part was realizing that they had lost everything, including the Christmas presents that the two girls who lived in the burned-out house had unwrapped the day before.
The family created a GoFundMe to raise money after the fire.