Fire crews were called to a house in Ramsay Road, Headington, shortly before midnight after a fire started in the ground-floor kitchen.
Two people who escaped the blaze were treated by paramedics after they inhaled smoke.
A spokesman for Oxfordshire Fire Service said a fire investigation team was trying to discover the cause.
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