Overview
- Fire crews found an English Tudor–style two‑story home on the 500 block of Lincoln Boulevard engulfed in flames and recovered two bodies in a first‑floor bedroom.
- Officials said the two victims were a couple in their 90s and they were pronounced dead at the scene.
- Relatives have been notified but the Santa Monica Fire Department has not released the victims’ identities.
- The couple normally had a caretaker and no one was on duty at the time of the blaze.
- The department says the cause remains under investigation and the fatality is the city’s second recent residential blaze, a development that could spur renewed safety checks for older residents who live with in‑home support.