UPDATE: Woman Treated for Minor Smoke Inhalation After Petit Avenue House Fire

10:40 UPDATE: The person taken to the hospital has been confirmed as a woman in her 40s, who was being treated for minor smoke inhalation, according to City News Service.

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A fire damaged an Encino home Monday morning, and a person was taken to the hospital an hour later, possibly suffering from smoke inhalation, according to authorities.

Firefighters were sent to the 4300 block of North Petit Avenue at 8:20 a.m. They extinguished the flames in 17 minutes, said Firefighter Matt Spence of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The cause of the fire was under investigation.

"The single-family-dwelling fire was confined to the kitchen, with a possible extension into the attic," Spence told Encino Patch, adding that the firefighters at the scene were ultimately able to prevent the fire from spreading into the attic.

"There was a report of somebody with possible smoke inhalation, and there was one transport [person taken to the hospital] from the scene an hour after the fire," said Spence.

City News Service contributed to this report.