OAKLAND — Firefighters extinguished separate blazes east of Lake Merritt, authorities said Sunday.
Around 2:20 p.m., dispatchers sent word of an apartment fire with a trapped person at a building in the 600 block of Brooklyn Avenue.
About 30 firefighters, including two battalion chiefs, responded aboard four engines and three trucks, Oakland Fire battalion chief Dino Torres said.
At the scene, firefighters learned no one was trapped in the third-floor apartment and then within five minutes knocked down flames believed to have been started by candles near a window, Torres said.
Around 6:45 p.m., firefighters responded to a report of flames from a second-floor apartment in the 1900 block of Fifth Avenue. Three trucks, two engines and a battalion chief responded and knocked down the fire within minutes.
The Red Cross Bay Area was called to care for displaced residents, according to the department’s Twitter account.
No residents or firefighters were injured in either blaze, and no estimate of damages was immediately available Sunday night.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.