Crime & Safety
Three Females Killed in Pittsburg Fire
Investigators believe there were no working smoke detectors inside the home when the house fire broke out early Sunday morning.
By Bay City News Service
Three people who died in an early morning house fire in Pittsburg Sunday were female, according to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District.
The victims were in a home in the 200 block of Dimaggio Avenue, which reportedly caught fire at about 12:30 a.m., Battalion Chief Lewis Broschard said.
Responding firefighters pulled the victims from the burning home, and all three were declared dead at the scene, Broschard said. Their names have not been released.
The two-alarm fire was contained in about 30 minutes, though crews remained at the scene for several hours, Broschard said.
The exact cause remains under investigation, but preliminary information indicates that there were no working smoke detectors inside the home, according to the fire department.
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