Two our bodies had been present in separate home fires in Los Angeles County this weekend, authorities stated.
Firefighters found a person’s physique about 8:30 a.m. Sunday whereas battling a hearth at a storage residence within the 8000 block of Alverstone Avenue in Westchester, in keeping with the Los Angeles Hearth Division.
“An grownup male was believed to be within the unit and was unaccounted for upon fireplace extinguishment,’’ LAFD spokeswoman Margaret Stewart instructed Metropolis Information Service. “Because of the quantity of storage, it took important quantity of overhaul to allow a search of the occupancy.”
The sufferer has not been recognized.
The reason for the fireplace stays underneath investigation, Stewart stated.
In a separate incident, firefighters discovered a physique inside a house after an attic fireplace in La Puente on Saturday afternoon, authorities stated.
Firefighters had been dispatched to a one-story residence at 445 S. Waringwood Highway at 4:46 p.m. Saturday. They put out the blaze lower than half an hour later, after which they discovered the physique, a Los Angeles County Hearth Division dispatcher stated.
The reason for the fireplace is underneath investigation. The id of the sufferer has additionally not been launched by the L.A. County coroner’s workplace.
