BODY FOUND AFTER FIRE IN APARTMENT GARAGE.Byline: Daily News NEWHALL -- Firefighters found the charred remains of someone who became trapped Wednesday in a burning garage at an apartment complex, authorities said. Firefighters arrived at the blaze in the 21200 block of Bottletree Lane about 6:30 p.m. and found the burning garage stuffed with boxes and other objects, Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La spokesman Brendon Peart a. 1. Active; lively; brisk; smart; - often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day s>. There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart said. Before firefighters arrived, neighbors tried frantically to put the blaze out Verb 1. blaze out - move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space" blaze take off, start out, set forth, set off, set out, start, depart, part - leave; "The family took off for Florida" with garden hoses and fire extinguishers fire extinguisher: see fire fighting. . ``It was way beyond'' extinguishing with such implements, said neighbor Michael Channels of Newhall. He said the flames reached about 20 feet high. One witness said it sounded like someone was trying to escape from the burning garage, Channels said. A distraught dis·traught adj. 1. Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict. 2. Mad; insane. [Middle English, alteration of distract, past participle of distracten, young woman said it was her friend's mother, trapped inside. ``Once the fire was out, they found a dead body inside the garage,'' said Lt. Tom Bryski of the county sheriff's station in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . Officials are investigating the cause of the fire. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: County Fire Department and sheriff's investigators examine the scene after a fatal garage fire at an apartment complex on Bottletree Lane in Newhall on Wednesday evening. The body of someone apparently trapped in the fire was found. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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