2 INJURED PUTTING OUT BLAZE.Byline: Daily News Two Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling an early morning apartment fire Thursday, officials said. The firefighters, who were not immediately identified, were taken to Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks Hopital (SOH) is an 153 bed acute care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, USA and is home of world renowned the Grossman Burn Center. SOH is owned and operated by Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. and Health Center, where one was treated for a back injury and released, and the other was expected to stay overnight after suffering heat exhaustion heat exhaustion, condition caused by overexposure to sunlight or another heat source and resulting in dehydration and salt depletion, also known as heat prostration. The symptoms are severe headaches, weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, and sometimes unconsciousness. , said Jim Wells Jim Wells MLA (born 27 April 1957) is a politician from the Democratic Unionist Party and a deputy speaker of the Transitional Assembly (Northern Ireland). Wells is one of six Assembly members for South Down. , a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . The two were among 85 firefighters who responded to a 5:23 a.m. blaze in the loft area of a third-floor apartment in the 15500 block of West Moorpark Street, Wells said. Residents of at least 20 apartments were evacuated as firefighters battled the blaze, which was extinguished within 35 minutes with only one unit damaged, Wells said. The cause of the fire was under investigation Thursday. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Los Angeles city firefighters help a colleague get some oxygen after a third-floor apartment fire Thursday morning in Sherman Oaks. (2) Firefighters brave thick smoke to battle a fire that broke out Thursday at a Sherman Oaks apartment complex. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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