OAKLAND — The cause of a Saturday night two-alarm fire that heavily damaged a Montclair district house and left a resident with minor burns remained under investigation Monday, officials said.
The fire erupted about 10:45 p.m. Saturday inside the home in the 6000 block of Johnston Drive.
Fire Department spokesman Michael Hunt said Monday the two residents, a man and woman, had just returned to the house after a week away. When they opened the front door they were met by flames and smoke.
The couple was able to make it down a driveway to the street before firefighters arrived.
A second alarm was called about 10:50 p.m. Fire crews worked to make sure no one else was inside the home, and tried to keep the blaze from spreading due to thick vegetation near the home, Hunt said.
Some 40 firefighters had the blaze under control at 11:20 p.m. No firefighters were injured.
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The woman suffered some minor burns to her hands and was treated at the scene, officials said.
Hunt said firefighters had responded to the neighborhood about two hours earlier to investigate reports from residents in the area of a possible gas odor but did not find anything at the time.
He said investigators were trying to determine if there was a gas leak inside the home, which may have caused a small fire that simmered for a while before expanding when the front door was opened.
A damage figure was not available, but the house was left uninhabitable, officials said. The residents were taken in by relatives.
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