6 Displaced After La Jolla Apartment Fire

SAN DIEGO, CA — A predawn apartment fire in La Jolla damaged two rental units Tuesday, displacing six people and causing some $650,000 worth of losses.

The non-injury blaze erupted at about 4:15 a.m. in the 600 block of Carla Way, just east of La Jolla Hermosa Avenue and south of Van Nuys Street, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

Crews had the flames under control within about 15 minutes, the city agency reported.

The American Red Cross was called in to help four adults and two children arrange for emergency shelter.

The cause of the fire — which caused an estimated $500,000 in structural damages and destroyed roughly $150,000 worth of contents — was under investigation, according to SDFRD public affairs.

— City News Service