Two men were killed, five other people were injured and at least 16 were displaced by a fire at a single-story house in\u00a0Sunland, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported at 11:10 p.m. Saturday on the 10900 block of North Scoville Avenue, near Wentworth Street, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart.<\/p>\n
It took 36 firefighters 30 minutes to extinguish.<\/p>\n
Flames were showing when firefighters arrived at the 1,359-square-foot home, Stewart said. There were reports of trapped elderly occupants on the premises.<\/p>\n
“During the fire attack, crews located one person and conducted a rapid transport to the hospital,'” she said. “Two additional patients were located but were beyond medical help and determined deceased on scene. An 87-year-old man was found outside the home with critical burn injuries and transported to a hospital,” Stewart said.<\/p>\n
Four other adults outside the home were also transported to hospitals, suffering from varying degrees of smoke inhalation. One person declined further medical treatment.<\/p>\n
The American Red Cross and the Mayor’s Crisis Response Team assisted the displaced.<\/p>\n
It was unclear whether the house, which was built in 1948, was equipped with working smoke alarms, Stewart said, adding there were two buildings on the property.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were killed, five other people were injured and at least 16 were displaced by a fire…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,39410],"class_list":{"0":"post-351977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-san-fernando-valley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115484261163695714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}