Posted on 12/02/2022 1:45:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
A man died Friday morning after he initially got out of burning home in Eagle Rock but went back inside, officials said.
The blaze was reported around 8:35 a.m. at 1456 W. Hepner Ave., according to an alert from the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Responding firefighters arrived to find a single-family home in flames. They received reports that four people were inside the home and three nearby buildings were being exposed to the heat.
Crews put out the fire in about 30 minutes and protected all neighboring structures. The home was completely destroyed and has been red-tagged.
All four men managed to escape the home, but one man who went back inside was later found dead, witnesses told fire officials.
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This is very sad but it happens a lot. Usually trying to save a pet or something “valuable.”
Million dollar LA home per Zillow.
(would be about 75 grand here in Indiana)
A shame, now he is dead and whatever “it” was is gone too.
“Usually trying to save a pet...”
A friend of mine was a long-time fire fighter. He was telling my kids that just get out of the house if it is on fire, and don’t try to rescue the pets as their instincts will get them out of the house.
Out of range of my kids I asked him if that was true.
“No. But the last thing we want is people to stay in the house looking or to go back in. We tell people that when they are standing outside and want to run back into their burning house. Or when they are yelling at us to run into their burning house to save fluffy.”
I once went into my burning boat and put out the fire. It was a total loss, and so was my lungs for months after.
Tarpaper shacks will go up quick.
Your lungs may still be a mess. I seem to remember reading that such damage does make you more likely to get pneumonia and develop complications. Don’t hold that as Gospel since my memory is not ironclad.
A tragedy, indeed. And it happened only a few blocks from Fiji Hill.
In the Southern Black hills of Sd a forest fire was raging.
A guy sent his wife out in one car, he went to get his dog.
The dog made it out, he didnt
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