{"id":489067,"date":"2026-01-03T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489067\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:56:09","slug":"fire-in-van-nuys-home-claims-life-of-50-year-old-man-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489067\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Van Nuys home claims life of 50-year-old man \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old man died after a heavy fire tore through a Van Nuys home Friday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire around 2:55 p.m. in the 6900 block of North Burnet Avenue. Upon arrival, firefighters saw heavy smoke from the rear of a one-story, single-family home.<\/p>\n<p>Crews launched an interior fire attack while truck companies conducted vertical ventilation to clear heat and smoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inside the home, firefighters found a man believed to be about 50 years old. He was transported to a hospital and later pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man died after a heavy fire tore through a Van Nuys home Friday afternoon, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,125733],"class_list":{"0":"post-489067","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-van-nuys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830337302280865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489067","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=489067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}