UPDATE: Early Morning Fire Guts Concord Home

UPDATE 8:20 AM Wednesday:

A fire early Wednesday morning destroyed a home where squatters were believed to be living in Concord, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District marshal said.

No one was injured in the fire, which was reported around 2:30 a.m. in the 1900 block of North Third Street near Willow Pass Road.

Firefighters arrived to find the home engulfed in flames with power lines that had dropped into the front yard, Fire Marshal Robert Marshall said. The gas meter at the home had also caught fire, further complicating firefighting efforts, Marshall said.

Fire crews were able to knock down the main portion of the fire within about 25 minutes and extinguished all of the flames within an hour, he said.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

An eviction had recently taken place at the home so no one was supposed to be living there, but fire officials learned a number of squatters had apparently been living there, according to Marshall.

The house is “a total loss,” Marshall said, adding that no adjacent homes were damaged by the fire.

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CONCORD-Firefighters this morning are at the scene of a structure fire that gutted a home in Concord.

Firefighters with the Contra Coast Fire Protection District responded around 2:30 a.m. to a structure fire in the 1900 block of North Third Street.

Responding firefighters arrived at the home to find it engulfed in flames.

Firefighters were able to knock down the blaze, but the structure sustained severe damage in the fire.

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