Two Alarm Fire Guts Fremont Townhouse

FREMONT, CA — A two-alarm fire gutted a townhouse in Fremont Tuesday afternoon, displacing the two people who live there, a fire battalion chief said.

The fire was reported at 2:20 p.m. in a four-unit building in the 3000 block of Howard Common, located off of Camden Street and near Eggers Drive.

The fire was burning inside a first-floor unit and spreading to an adjacent unit upstairs. Firefighters managed to keep the fire mostly contained to the first unit, Battalion Chief Don Linneman said.

The fire was extinguished at 2:42 p.m., but the unit was left gutted. Linneman said PG&E was working to determine whether there was any damage to the utilities in the other units.

A fire investigator is working to determine the cause of the blaze, Linneman said. No injuries were reported.

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