BERKELEY — A fire at a house early Monday killed one person and hospitalized three others, authorities said.
A family pet also perished in the blaze, according to a statement from Berkeley Fire spokesperson Dafina Dailey. Of the three other people hospitalized, one remained in critical condition Monday afternoon, she said.
Authorities did not name the dead person immediately, pending confirmation if their identity and notification of relatives. Rescue personnel rushed that person to a hospital, and the person died there.
The fire was the first of two fatal ones in Alameda County early Monday. The other blaze — a two-alarm fire at an Oakland warehouse — killed a woman.
Firefighters responded to the1000 block of Cedar Street about 4:35 a.m. and saw the single-family residential house in flames and smoke.
Crews broke an exterior window to get inside and pull out the four people from the home, Dailey said. They later brought the fire under control.
As of 2 p.m. Monday, investigators had not determined how or where it started.