Los Angeles Firefighters arrived quickly to find smoke showing from a two-story 4,403 square-foot residential fourplex.
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Finding fire in the attic, firefighters commenced swift salvage operations to protect personal property by deploying tarpaulins within the structure and making judicious use of firefighting hosestreams.
The well coordinated effort of firefighters confined flames to the building's common attic, extinguishing the blaze in just 23 minutes.
There were no injuries.
Though loss from the fire was limited to $35,000 ($25,000 structure & $10,000 contents), the need to secure utilities rendered the building temporarily untenable. A total of twenty persons - 15 adults and 5 children - living in the residential fourplex were referred to the American Red Cross for interim placement assistance.
The cause of the fire was determined to be electrical in nature, and attributed to dated wiring in the 99 year-old building.
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
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