BATON ROUGE - Two dogs were killed in a house fire off Jefferson Highway Friday afternoon.

According to the St. George Fire Department, crews responded to the home on Brookfield Avenue, in a neighborhood off Jefferson Highway, around 12:30 p.m.

Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the house, and they made their way inside to put out the blaze.

No residents were there at the time, but their dogs were left inside. While making "their best efforts" to find the animals and rescue them, firefighters said they found the dogs dead inside the house.

Investigators later determined the fire was accidentally sparked.