according to authorities<\/a>.<\/p>\nNeighboring buildings were evacuated while students at the middle school were told to shelter in place, according to Lauren Santillana, Beverly Hills\u2019 public information manager.<\/p>\n
The roof of the apartment complex collapsed while the firefighters were attacking the blaze, forcing them to retreat and eventually hit the fire from overhead using ladder trucks. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles County personnel assisted in the firefight, and by 12:45 p.m., the blaze was under control, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Two firefighters were taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. One was being treated for heat exhaustion and the other for a minor burn. Temperatures in the area approached or exceeded triple digits Wednesday, amid a punishing heat wave that is broiling Southern California. <\/p>\n
No additional injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Fire crews are expected to be on the scene for hours, according to authorities, as the fire\u2019s origin is under investigation.<\/p>\n
Parent pickup took place at Beverly Vista Middle School as per usual, according to Santillana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two firefighters are being treated for minor injuries they suffered battling a Beverly Hills apartment fire Wednesday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6577,180913,180914,7213,7,9,8,3802,4330,348,180917,180916,180918,180919,162283,1410,36898,180915],"class_list":["post-458637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-authority","tag-beverly-hills-apartment-blaze","tag-beverly-vista-middle-school","tag-blaze","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-investigation","tag-ladder-truck","tag-lauren-santillana","tag-los-angeles-county-personnel","tag-minor-burn","tag-overhead","tag-place","tag-temperature","tag-two-story-apartment-complex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458637","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=458637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}