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Elderly Couple Dies in Santa Monica House Fire

Fire crews found a couple in their 90s dead in their Lincoln Boulevard home after an early-morning blaze; cause remains under investigation.

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Santa Monica firefighters responding to a call just before 3 a.m. on August 9, 2026 found a two-story English Tudor-style home on the 500 block of Lincoln Boulevard engulfed in flames, and discovered the bodies of an elderly couple in a first-floor bedroom. The couple, both in their 90s, usually had a caretaker but none was present that night; the cause of the fire has not yet been determined. It is the second fatal residential fire in Santa Monica in recent months, following a June 5 blaze that killed an elderly man in a nearby apartment.

  • A couple in their 90s died in an early-morning house fire on the 500 block of Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica on August 9, 2026.
  • Firefighters, responding to a call just before 3 a.m., found the two-story home engulfed in flames and discovered the bodies in a first-floor bedroom.
  • The couple usually had a caretaker present, but no one was on duty at the time of the fire; the cause has not been determined.
  • It is Santa Monica's second fatal residential fire in recent months, following a June 5 blaze that killed an elderly man in a 5th Street apartment.

How it unfolded

  1. Analysis Fire department opens investigation

    Battalion Chief James Altman said the couple normally had a caretaker present but none was on duty that night, and the cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

  2. Report Local outlets report the deaths

    ABC7, KTLA, NBC Los Angeles, CBS News and the Santa Monica Daily Press report that two people, later identified as an elderly couple, were found dead after the house fire.

  3. Event Two bodies found in first-floor bedroom

    Fire crews located the bodies of the elderly couple, both in their 90s, in the home's first-floor bedroom; they were pronounced dead at the scene.

  4. Event Fire breaks out on Lincoln Boulevard

    Santa Monica firefighters responded to a call shortly before 3 a.m. and found a two-story home on the 500 block of Lincoln Boulevard engulfed in flames.

  5. 9 weeks quiet
  6. Event Earlier fatal fire in Santa Monica

    An elderly man died after a fire broke out in a second-floor apartment in the 2600 block of 5th Street, the city's first fatal residential fire in recent months.