Family Safe as Fire Guts Apartment
Fire guts an apartment unit in South Los Angeles, leaving the balcony and rooms charred. LAFD firefighters from Engine 57 overhaul the burned-out unit while relieved family members embrace outside, safe.
Fire guts an apartment unit in South Los Angeles, leaving the balcony and rooms charred. LAFD firefighters from Engine 57 overhaul the burned-out unit while relieved family members embrace outside, safe.
A man is critically injured after being thrown from his horse on the Hansen Lake trail in Shadow Hills. LAFD crews bring him out in a brush truck, and an LAFD air ambulance helicopter lands on the road to fly him to the hospital.
A teenager wounded in a drive-by shooting sits on the front steps as firefighters treat him. LAPD officers talk with family members and a gurney stands ready.
Two men are shot and seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting at a house in South Central Los Angeles. LAPD Newton Division (13) officers tape off the street and question witnesses, including children, as LAFD Engine 14 firefighters and paramedics wheel the victims to rescue ambulances.
Gunmen in a white van fire more than a dozen shots into homes on a South Los Angeles street. A 9-year-old girl sitting on her couch is grazed on the neck when a bullet passes through a neighbor’s wall, an air conditioner and the couch. She shows where she was hit.
Fire breaks out in an occupied converted garage in South Los Angeles. Flames burn through the roof as LAFD firefighters from Engines 57 and 66 cut ventilation holes from above and attack with hose lines from the yard.
A hit-and-run driver shears off a fire hydrant in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, sending a geyser about 100 feet into the air. It takes firefighters more than 30 minutes to shut off the water, which floods the streets.
A crowd confronts LAPD officers after a police chase ends in a residential neighborhood. Officers with batons push the crowd back from an apartment doorway, women cry and argue with police, and an LAPD helicopter circles overhead. At night, officers in a ready stance hold back the crowd as suspects are detained beside LAPD Southeast Division patrol cars.
A man is shot while walking on a sidewalk in the LAPD Wilshire Division area. LAFD paramedics treat him in the back of a rescue ambulance, with Engine 61 at the scene, as officers tape off the street and question witnesses.
Three people are shot and critically wounded at a youth center on Main Street in South Los Angeles. Paramedics treat the victims and wheel them out to ambulances as LAPD Newton Division officers interview witnesses.