Elderly couple dies in Santa Monica home fire
Key Points:
- An early-morning fire on Sunday in a two-story home on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica resulted in the deaths of an elderly couple in their 90s.
- Firefighters discovered the couple's bodies in a first-floor bedroom after responding to the blaze shortly before 3 a.m., and they were pronounced dead at the scene.
- The couple typically had a caretaker present, but no one was on duty during the fire, according to Battalion Chief James Altman.
- The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Santa Monica Fire Department.
- This incident marks Santa Monica’s second fatal residential fire in recent months, following a June 5 blaze that killed an elderly man in a nearby apartment.