Fire seriously damaged a Santa Rosa home before dawn early Tuesday, displacing four residents.
The Olive Street fire was reported at 4:38 a.m. The caller gave directed firefighters to an Olive Street address, saying the roof was on fire from fallen power lines.
Firefighters found a fallen eucalyptus tree, which had pulled lines down onto a roof and caused minor damage to a home. But there was no sign of flames, said Santa Rosa fire Battalion Chief Mark Basque.
Firefighters began dealing with the tree issues and several minutes later, a woman approached firefighters and told them it was her house that was on fire, Basque said.
She guided firefighters down an alley to a two-story residence where the kitchen was ablaze and the house filled with smoke. They had the flames under control in 10 minutes, Basque said.
The fire caused serious damage to the kitchen and smoke damage throughout the home. Red Cross volunteers aided four residents with temporary housing.
The woman was the only one home when the fire started. A blaring smoke detector woke her and she climbed to safety from a bedroom window, Basque said.
The cause remained under investigation but appeared electrical. Damage was estimated at $50,000.
He said the mix up in locations involved the same address for both the house on fire and the house with wires on the roof, except for one was unit B and one was unit D. Olive Street is in Roseland, off of Sebastopol Road.
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