Woman Burned In Los Angeles Four-Plex Fire

LOS ANGELES, CA — A woman suffered severe burns in a fire that burned a first-floor unit of a two-story residential four-plex in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles Saturday.

The fire was reported at 4:12 p.m. Saturday at 3011 W. Stocker Place, near Audubon Middle School, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department's Brian Humphrey.

It took 40 firefighters 18 minutes to put out the heavy flames in the first-floor unit that caused some damage to the unit directly above, Humphrey said.

A woman with severe burn injuries was taken to a hospital by paramedics in serious condition, he said. No other injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire was under investigation, Humphrey said.

— City News Service