Residents of the home and neighbors threw buckets of water on the flames before fire crews arrived, which Mountain View says helped keep the fire from doing too much damage.
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Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
The five people who lived in the building evacuated before firefighters arrived and no injuries were reported.
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