Photo Gallery: Deadly fire in Pasadena

Pasadena Fire Dept. personnel investigate the cause of an explosion and fire that gutted a home on the 1300 block of El Sereno Ave. in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. According to officials at the scene, 19 people lived at the boarding-type home, 2 died and one was in critical condition at a burn center. Fire dept. personnel deemed the area a crime scene.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Two people died in an early morning fire at a home on the 1300 block of El Sereno Ave. in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. According to officials at the scene, 19 people lived at the boarding-type home, 2 died and one was in critical condition at a burn center. Fire dept. personnel deemed the area a crime scene.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Pasadena Fire Dept. investigates the cause of a explosion and fire that gutted a home on the 1300 block of El Sereno Ave. in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. According to officials at the scene, 19 people lived at the boarding-type home, 2 died and one was in critical condition at a burn center. Fire dept. personnel deemed the area a crime scene.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Pamela Clark, left, estranged wife of one of the two person’s who died in the early morning fire, gets a hug from an unidentified friend, near the gutted home on the 1300 block of El Sereno Ave. in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Clark said her estranged husband lived at the home and she was trying to “work things out” with him. According to officials at the scene, 19 people lived at the boarding-type home, 2 died and one was in critical condition at a burn center. Fire dept. personnel deemed the area a crime scene.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Tommie J. Nelson, 63 of Pasadena, came by to look for a friend who lived in a home gutted by an explosion and fire on the 1300 block of El Sereno Ave. in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Nelson said he lived in that same home for 4 years about 5 years ago and still had friends living there. According to officials at the scene, 19 people lived at the boarding-type home, 2 died and one was in critical condition at a burn center. Fire dept. personnel deemed the area a crime scene.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

A Pasadena firefighter talks with an unidentified man who came to pick up paperwork from the gutted home on the 1300 block of El Sereno Ave. in Pasadena on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. According to officials at the scene, 19 people lived at the boarding-type home, 2 died and one was in critical condition at a burn center after an explosion and fire tore through the home. Fire dept. personnel deemed the area a crime scene.  (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)