{"id":134224,"date":"2026-01-15T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134224\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:29:09","slug":"potential-human-remains-detected-at-scene-of-north-hills-fire-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134224\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential human remains detected at scene of North Hills fire \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators are responding after human remains detection K-9s alerted officials to a particular area of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/fire-burns-through-building-in-north-hills\/3831271\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire-torn building in North Hills<\/a>, the Los Angeles Fire Department said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Flames ripped through a vacant building that was formerly used as a church on the 15000 block of West Parthenia Street on Tuesday. During the overnight hours, the blaze started back up again, forcing crews into another firefight.<\/p>\n<p>After extinguishing the blaze a second time, arson investigators and human remains detection K-9s canvassed the scene. One of the dogs then alerted officials to a certain part of the building where human blood, bones or tissue may have been detected.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFirefighters responded to a structure fire in North Hills. Eliana Moreno reports for the NBC4 News at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>According to the fire department, crews have been unable to reach that area. Heavy machinery is now being used to clear the way for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The machine work could take several days, so as a result, Parthenia Street has been shut down from Columbus Avenue to Burnet Avenue until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>LAFD said it was unsure if people were inside the building at the time, since unhoused people live near the structure, posing the possibility that someone could have been inside.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what started the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators are responding after human remains detection K-9s alerted officials to a particular area of a fire-torn building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,67925,7611],"class_list":["post-134224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-north-hills","tag-san-fernando-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}