A body was found Saturday in the aftermath an explosive fire in a detached garage in the West Adams area of South Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Firefighters were initially dispatched at 5:32 a.m. Saturday to the detached garage at 2421 S. Ninth Ave., \u201cfully involved with fire and explosions,\u201d Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Jamie Stewart said.<\/p>\n
The home is situated between the Santa Monica (10) Freeway to the north, and West Adams Boulevard to the south.<\/p>\n
The firefighters waged a defensive battle outside the garage and had the flames out at 5:52 a.m., Stewart said.<\/p>\n
Cadaver dogs were dispatched to the scene and a body was discovered, the Los Angeles Police Department stated.<\/p>\n
A description of the body was not immediately made public.<\/p>\n
The LAPD sent its bomb squad to the scene and LAFD sent arson investigators, Stewart said.<\/p>\n
A loud explosion was heard with fireworks going off, according to an LAPD spokesman. \u201cCommercial-grade fireworks\u201d were recovered.<\/p>\n
The body was located inside a studio apartment behind the garage, according to NBC4. A woman who lives near the garage said there was an explosion that broke windows and felt like an earthquake. She said a man in his 20s lived in the apartment.<\/p>\n
People who lived near the garage were evacuated while the fireworks were cleared, according to the station.<\/p>\n
Paramedics evaluated a 30-year-old woman for an unknown injury, Stewart said. It was not known whether she was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body was found Saturday in the aftermath an explosive fire in a detached garage in the West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[83982,2789,129599,12397,3802,11021,14913,48,52,51,47,50,49,978],"class_list":["post-308396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-adams","tag-body","tag-destroy","tag-explosion","tag-fire","tag-found","tag-garage","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308396","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=308396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}