Crime & Safety
2 Firefighters Injured Battling Sherman Oaks Blaze
It took nearly 100 firefighters just over one hour to knock down the Sumac Drive fire.
UPDATE Saturday 2:40 p.m. The two firefighters have been treated and released from the hospital, according to the LAFD.
8:55 a.m. Two firefighters suffered burns battling a midnight greater alarm fire at a three-story house on a narrow, winding road in Sherman Oaks, authorities said.
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The fire was at 4008 Sumac Drive, off Beverly Glen Boulevard, and was reported at 12:02 a.m., said Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The injured firefighters were taken to a hospital, he said. One, a captain, was in serious but stable condition and the other was in fair condition, Scott said.
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It took nearly 100 firefighters just over one hour to knock down the blaze, he said.
Conditions deteriorated rapidly and firefighters were ordered out of the structure at one point, Scott said.
Arriving firefighters found one room ablaze in the house, which had two stories below ground level. All three floors of the home were extensively damaged, Scott said.
Several arson investigators were combing through debris to determine what caused the fire, he said.
Scott said the estimate loss of the fire was $180,000 to the structure and $80,000 to its contents. A cause of the fire was still under investigation.
