5 Displaced After Valencia Park House Fire

SAN DIEGO, CA — A late-morning fire damaged a house in a Valencia Park-area neighborhood Wednesday, displacing five residents.

The non-injury blaze erupted for unknown reasons about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 5100 block of Trinidad Way, east of Euclid Avenue and south of Imperial Avenue, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

Firefighters arrived to find a single-family home with two bedrooms "burning rather briskly," SDFRD Battalion Chief John Fisher told OnSceneTV.

While extinguishing the flames, which took about 15 minutes, the personnel safely rescued three dogs from inside the residence, Fisher said.

The American Red Cross was called in to help the people who live in the house, all adults, arrange for emergency shelter.

The cause of the blaze was under investigation, Fisher said.

— City News Service