{"id":184877,"date":"2026-02-19T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:52:07","slug":"neighbor-battles-apartment-fire-with-garden-hose-helping-firefighters-rescue-woman-inside-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184877\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor battles apartment fire with garden hose, helping firefighters rescue woman inside \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was rushed to a hospital in critical condition this morning after she was rescued from a blaze that broke out at an apartment southwest of the Traffic Circle area.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple 911 callers reported the fire shortly after 3:30 a.m. at a four-unit apartment complex on Euclid Avenue near Fountain Street, said Long Beach Fire Capt. Jack Crabtree. Several callers also told dispatchers they believed someone was still inside the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Before firefighters arrived, a neighbor broke one of the apartment\u2019s windows and began spraying the flames with a garden hose, Crabtree said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeroic efforts from the neighbors\u201d helped firefighters \u201cquickly locate and rescue\u201d a woman in her 40s who was still inside the apartment, Crabtree said.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to a hospital in critical condition from burn injuries, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters extinguished the blaze within 15 minutes because the neighbors\u2019 quick actions \u201clikely reduced further fire spread and damage,\u201d Crabtree said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were working to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was rushed to a hospital in critical condition this morning after she was rescued from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-184877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184877","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=184877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}