SAN FRANCISCO -- A pair of kittens may only have eight lives left after firefighters rescued them from a smoky San Francisco apartment building blaze early Friday and brought them back from the brink of death.

San Francisco Fire Chief Art Kenney told KTVU that the one-alarm fire erupted in a rear kitchen in the three-story apartment building located at 951 Jackson St. at around 2:45 a.m.

Arriving firefighters were able to quickly keep the flames from spreading to the other units and locate the residents who had evacuated the building.

“Firefighters did a good job getting in there and stopping the spread of it,” Kenney said. “There was a lot of smoke and they came across a couple of kittens. They were unconscious. We were able to revive them.”

The firefighters rushed the kittens outside the building where paramedics used oxygen to revive them.

There were no other injuries in the fire. The blaze was declared out at 3:15 a.m. No cause has been determined.