said LAFD spokesman Margaret Stewart. It took 70 firefighters 43 minutes to extinguish the heavy flames. A 25-year-old man, an 83-year-old woman and another man whose age was not given were taken ...
upon responding at about 3:31 a.m., LAFD officials said. Three other people — an 83-year-old woman, 20-year-old man and 68-year-old man — had escaped the blaze before firefighters arrived.