A suburban
Southern California neighborhood saw a plane crash on Monday that set two
houses on fire and killed at least two people were killed while two others were
injured.

It wasn’t
immediately known whether the victims were on the ground or onboard the
twin-engine Cessna that went down around midday in Santee, about 20 miles (30
kilometers) northeast of downtown San Diego, The Associated Press reported.

Deputy Fire
Chief Justin Matsushita informed that two people died at the scene and two were
taken to a hospital in unknown condition.

Two homes
and multiple vehicles were destroyed by fire, officials said.

One home
was “well involved” by flames, and a second home also caught fire,
Garlow said while adding that a box truck, possibly a package delivery vehicle,
also burned due to the fire in the aftermath of the crash.

TV news
footage about an hour after the crash showed the fire extinguished and two
houses and a vehicle in the street still smoldering and gutted by flames.

Jim Slaff
told NBC 7 in San Diego that neighbors pulled his mother out of a window of her
burning home and rescued his stepfather from the backyard. It appears their dog
died, according to the AP report.

Slaff said
neighbors told him the couple was “obviously shaken up but doing OK”
and taken to UC San Diego Medical Center. “It’s a war zone. It’s not even
a house,” Slaff said after arriving at the scene.

The plane
was a twin-engine Cessna C340, according to the Federal Aviation
Administration. It wasn’t immediately known where the flight originated or was
headed, or how many people were on board.

The crash
happened about three blocks from Santana High School in the city of about
50,000 residents. The school said on Twitter that “all students are
secure.”

(With AP inputs)