(FOX40.COM) — Six people escaped a house fire in Rio Linda on Thursday afternoon, fire officials said.
The fire started in a single-family home near Ascot Avenue and Riley Boulevard, Sacramento Metro Fire Department Public Information Officer Mark said, and quickly spread across the back side of the home and into the interior.
The six people occupying the home escaped without injury, fire officials said. Firefighters were able to contain the fire, but its residents have been displaced. They’re receiving assistance from the American Red Cross.
The cause of the fire is not yet known…