Crime & Safety
Firefighters Injured in House Fire in Little Armenia
The fire caused $100,000 in damage at a vacant, wood-frame home.
Two firefighters today nursed painful burn injuries they suffered fighting a suspicious attic fire that caused $100,000 in damage at a vacant two-story wood-frame home in Hollywood's Little Armenia neighborhood, authorities said.
Firefighters were dispatched to a house at 714 N. Kenmore Ave. near Melrose Avenue at 8:30 a.m. Sunday and had the fire out at 8:49 a.m., said Los Angeles City Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey of the .
"Loss to the 99-year-old vacant wood frame home was limited to the structural value of $100,000,'' Humphrey said.
Two firefighters sustained "painful first-and-second-degree burns on their ears and necks'' fighting the attic fire, he said. They were transported to Torrance Memorial Medical Center, where they received specialized burn care before being released. The two remained off duty today, he said."The fire is presently categorized as suspicious and remains the focus of an active LAFD investigation,'' Humphrey said, adding that anyone with information about the fire is urged to call the LAFD Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section at (213) 893-9800.
- City News Service
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