Fire Forces Family From Westminster Home 1 Week Before Christmas

WESTMINSTER, CA — Smoke and flames rendered a Westminster home unliveable overnight, Orange County Fire Authority reports. A family of seven, including three children, survived the blaze though no smoke detector was working inside the home, OCFA says.

Firefighters responded at just before 2 a.m. to the 6200 block of Kiowa Road. There, they discovered that seven people escaped the burning house, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.

Firefighters were able to knock down the fire within 30 minutes, they said. This home did not have a working smoke detector, an OCFA spokesperson said.

The Red Cross was called in to assist the four adults and three children displaced by the fire.

No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation.