One person is dead, one critical in Pacoima fireworks-related fire, officials said
One person is dead, one critical in Pacoima fireworks-related fire, officials said
Los Angeles Fire Department officials are investigating fireworks-related blazes where one man was found dead, a woman was injured and four homes were severely damaged in Pacoima.
The initial fire — which was declared a major emergency by the LAFD — was reported just before 9 p.m. Thursday, July 3, on the 12000 block of West Corcoran Street, between Dronfiled Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. Arriving fire crews found four one-story, single-family homes on fire along the block, with fireworks detonating and threatening homes and brush in the area, said LAFD spokesperson Lyndsey Lantz.
David Ortiz, another LAFD spokesperson, said one residence had a large quantity of fireworks stored inside.
LAFD firefighters found the body of a man inside one residence early Friday morning after the fire was extinguished, Fox11 reported.
NBC4 reported a woman who was injured in the blaze was taken by LAFD paramedics to a hospital in critical condition with severe burns.
California Highway Patrol officers took a dog that was injured in the fire to an emergency veterinary hospital in an unknown condition, according to the LAFD.
More than 130 firefighters worked the fire, Lantz said.
Ortiz said battling the flames with fireworks inside one of the homes was “very challenging. It was very chaotic.
“The flames were seen from miles away,” he told Fox11.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames by 10 p.m. Thursday.
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