A fire that broke out in the Berkeley Hills hours before dawn Thursday burned two residential buildings, ruptured a gas line and downed power wires. There were no injuries reported but police warned that residual smoke was lingering in the area.
A 911 caller first reported the fire, in the 1500 block of Olympus Avenue, shortly before 4 a.m., Deputy Fire Chief Keith May said in response to a Berkeleyside inquiry.
Firefighters arrived “to find heavy smoke and flames” billowing from one building, with everyone who had been inside already outside, May wrote…