{"id":235644,"date":"2026-03-25T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:07:23","slug":"emts-assess-two-residents-after-apartment-catches-fire-in-south-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235644\/","title":{"rendered":"EMTs Assess Two Residents After Apartment Catches Fire in South Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were assessed for possible smoke inhalation after firefighters made quick work of a blaze in a four-story apartment building in Historic South-Central Los Angeles Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported to be burning in a second-floor unit of a modern, center hall apartment building in the 4300 block of South Main Street around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>The first-arriving crews reported smoke was coming from the second floor and managed to locate and extinguish the fire in 10 minutes, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were evaluated at the scene for possible smoke inhalation, but were not immediately taken to a hospital, according to Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>An LAFD hazardous materials crew was deployed to deal with \u201clithium battery mitigation,\u201d Stewart added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were assessed for possible smoke inhalation after firefighters made quick work of a blaze in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3895,21542,3802,48,52,51,47,50,49,21543,21544,5956,1968],"class_list":["post-235644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-apartment","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-make","tag-quick","tag-south-central","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235644","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=235644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}