Five people were injured, two critically, after a fire ripped through one home and extended to another on Thursday morning in Pacific Palisades, killing a family's cat, authorities said.
Firefighters responded about 2:14 a.m. to a hillside home in the 16500 block of W. Las Casas Place, where the first floor was well involved in flames, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement.
The blaze spread to an adjacent residence before being extinguished by 88 firefighters in 44 minutes, according to the news release. A 90-year-old woman was among the victims. Descriptions of the other patients were not immediately available.