Cell Phone Video Shows Troublesome Vacant Home Catching On Fire

By KCAL News, CBS Los Angeles

November 30, 2023

A neighbor captured the moments flames shot out of a troublesome vacant home on Thanksgiving Day in West Hollywood.

The fire was yards away from Stefanie LaHart's house. She's reported the worrisome property to the developer and city — even going so far as to document the piles of trash, people trespassing and others living inside — but to no avail. Days before the fire, LaHart asked one of the developer's contacts to remove the empty, dilapidated house.

"Three days before this happened I said 'Please get somebody out here,'" she recalled. "Somethings going to happen and sure enough for Thanksgiving, we are all at our respective homes and get emergency text messages the place is on fire."

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