Fire injures 3, strands some on top floor of 7-story building in Downtown Long Beach
More than a dozen LBFD units rushed to the building at Atlantic Avenue and Fourth Street where crews battled flames and heavy smoke on the sixth floor.
More than a dozen LBFD units rushed to the building at Atlantic Avenue and Fourth Street where crews battled flames and heavy smoke on the sixth floor.
The fire broke out around 1 p.m. at a two-story apartment complex on the 2600 block of 55th Way, according to Long Beach Fire Department Captain Jack Crabtree.
The condition of the dogs is unknown, but “they were seemingly OK,” according to a fire department spokesperson.
No injuries to residents or firefighters were reported, a fire department spokesman said.
One firefighter was taken to the hospital to treat a cut on his hand after crews doused an overnight blaze at a condo about a block north of the Recreation Park Golf Course, according to a fire official.
The blaze sent some smoke into the air around noon in North Long Beach, but crews had it out quickly, authorities said.
The blaze broke out around 5:30 a.m. at an apartment building on Pacific Avenue near 10th Street, sending a couple fleeing.
The second-alarm fire broke out around 6:20 p.m. near Daisy Avenue and 10th Street, Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Jake Heflin said.
Firefighters ripped into the roof of the home on La Perla Avenue to get water on the fire and quickly put it out.
Units arrived on scene around 1:40 p.m. near the intersection of Hermosa Avenue and East Second Street and reported heavy smoke coming from an attic vent in the two-story fourplex.