A massive fire destroying the home of model and actress, Cara Delvine. Arial footage shows smoke billowing from the multimillion dollar mansion as the fire burned for hours. Nearly 100 firefighters were on the scene throughout this morning. The actress, thankfully not there at the time. Nbc Los Angeles reporter Christian Césares joins us now from the scene of the fire. Christian, walk us through what we know at this hour.

Well, I can tell you, the fire Firefighters have been here for almost 12 hours now. Check it out. This is a live look here outside of the English model and actress's home. And you can see the fire trucks here parked right outside of the home. They're just basically cleaning up here. Now, LA City Fire telling us the call came for a large two-story home fire around 4:00 this morning. But when fire crews arrived, they say they had a hard time finding the fire in the smoke because of the long driveway. Now, it took crews two hours to knock out this fire. They say it was an overall A very extensive fire operation because of the size of the home. And as you mentioned, it took almost 100 firefighters here to face this challenge. Now, again, the model and the actress was not home when the fire happened. But LA City Fire telling us only a housekeeper was here at the home when the fire happened, and we're told she was able to walk away with no major injuries here. So some good news to report there. Elson?

Christian, do authorities there have any clue as to what caused this fire in the first place?

Well, as of now, the cause is still under investigation, but I do want to show you a very interesting piece of information that some of the neighbors were sharing with us today. I want to show you here a live look here from the neighborhood. You can see that there's just so much greenery here. And their biggest concern, they tell me, is that all the properties here, they share branches. So as you can imagine, they were concerned, they were scared that this fire was easily going to be jumping from property to property here. Fortunately, that was not the case. But of Of course, a very scary situation here for so many neighbors this morning.

And there was a lot of concern for Kara's two cats. She posted a photo. We can show our viewers here on Instagram of her cat saying that her heart is broken. We hear there might be an Can you give us an update tonight about how those pets are doing.

That's right. Well, we all know that our pets are part of our families, right? So, of course, she posted a picture when she thought that her two cats had passed away in the fire. But I can tell you that early this morning, our crews were out here. They were able to get video of two women coming down this driveway with both of those cats in their arms, and they were alive. And just a short moment after that, the model going on to her Instagram and updating the condition of those two cats, and also going on to thank you all the firefighters and everyone in general that came out here to help. Of course, a very scary situation, not just for her, but of course, for all the neighbors here in Studio City.

Christian Caceres in LA. Thank you so much. We appreciate it.

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