UPDATE: Fatality Confirmed In Vallejo Blaze Wednesday Night

UPDATE 11:10AM - Vallejo Fire Department investigators entered an apartment sunrise this morning to find the cause and origin of a three-alarm fire that killed an infant and displaced 15 people late Wednesday night, a fire department spokesman said.

Fire spokesman Kevin Brown said the infant was under a year old and the baby’s gender was not immediately available.

Neighbors of the four-plex at 128 Kathy Ellen Drive said another child was able to escape the burning apartment as were the parents, Brown said.

An attempt was made to rescue the infant within 20 minutes of arrival, but firefighters were unable to advance inside, Brown said.

Because of the fatality, the fire department got a warrant to preserve what is procedurally considered a crime scene, and the Vallejo police and fire departments are investigating the blaze, Brown said.

The fire near Interstate Highway 80 and south of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom was reported around 11:35 p.m.

It destroyed the two second-story apartments, but the first-floor apartments that sustained smoke and some fire damage will be habitable, Brown said.

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UPDATE 7:45AM - An infant was reportedly killed and about a dozen residents were displaced in a Wednesday night three-alarm apartment fire in Vallejo.

The fire was first reported around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at an apartment building in the 100 block of Kathy Ellen Drive. The fire was reported under control around 1:20 a.m.

After the fire was extinguished, fire crews searched the unit where the fire started and confirmed there was a fatality.

Vallejo Fire Department spokesman Kevin Brown said the fire started in one of the apartment units.

The unit where the fire started was a complete loss.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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(original story)

VALLEJO - The Vallejo Fire Department this morning is reporting a fatality in a Wednesday night three-alarm structure fire on Kathy Ellen Drive in Vallejo.

The fire was first reported Wednesday around 11:30 p.m. Within an hour, the blaze grew to a three-alarm response. The fire was reported as under control this morning around 1:20 a.m.

Initially, the fire department reported its crews were responding to a fully involved structure fire, with a child or infant possibly trapped inside the structure.

No other details about the announced fatality were immediately available.

With all available Vallejo units involved in the firefight, outside crews from American Canyon, Crockett and Benicia were called to Vallejo to keep an eye on the rest of the city.

-Bay City News, image via ShutterStock