Mother, daughter hospitalized with burns after East Palo Alto house fire

By Dan McMenamin

Updated February 25, 2021 5:04pm PST

Four people burned in East Palo Alto fire

Two of the four are in the hospital because of the severity of their burn injuries.

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. - A two-alarm residential fire in East Palo Alto on Thursday morning sent a mother and a daughter to the hospital and displaced 11 people, Menlo Park Fire Protection District Chief Harold Schapelhouman said.

The fire was reported at 6:34 a.m. on Almond Court and crews arrived to control the blaze by 7 a.m.

The mother suffered serioius burns, and the daughter suffered severe burns, Schapelhouman said. The two remained hospitalized Thursday evening.

No other information about the fire was immediately available.

Bay City news contributed to this KTVU report.