More than 25 fire personnel along with six fire trucks from four different stations responded early Tuesday morning to a blaze that caused “extensive damage” to a Citrus Heights home.
“I was in the kitchen making coffee and smelled smoke in the back of the bedroom,” said 55-year-old resident Mark Wheeler, who lives alone in the home on Ziebell Court. “I saw [things] catching on fire, so I grabbed my keys and got out of there.”
Wheeler sat outside in his van talking with several neighbors who were out watching fire crews clean up the scene on the dead-end street near Old Auburn Road and Fair Oaks Boulevard.
“I just heard a boom, and my German Shepherds went nuts,” said neighbor Grant Millhouse, who said his wife told him the house next door was on fire. “If they hadn’t come, my house probably would have been on fire too.”
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Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Battalion Chief Chris Siler said the blaze caused extensive damage to the garage, attic and interior of the home — although no animals or people were injured.
Firefighters began “initiating fire attack” around 6:20 a.m., according to a Tweet from Metro Fire’s Public Information Office, and had the blaze contained by 6:45 a.m. Investigators later determined the cause of fire was “electrical in nature.”
