{"id":489322,"date":"2026-10-08T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489322\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:30:08","slug":"four-los-angeles-firefighter-injured-during-freon-leak-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489322\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Los Angeles Firefighter Injured During Freon Leak, Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Los Angeles firefighters were injured by an explosion while investigating a leak at a Silver Lake home.<\/p>\n<p>Two firefighters remain hospitalized and two were released, Battalion Chief Nick Pellegrini told <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/4-lafd-firefighters-among-5-people-injured-fire-erupts-silver-lake-home\/19918398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC7.com<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called a little before 11 a.m. when an HVAC technician was unable to contain a Freon leak at the home on\u00a0North Lakewood Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the engine company responded, we had one member in the basement trying to assist and an explosion occurred,&#8221; Pellegrini said. &#8220;So we had a small explosion and the one member that was in the basement was slightly disorientated,&#8221; Pellegrini said. &#8220;The other crew was still in the living area of the home and from there the crews left the structure at that point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Branden Silverman, a captain with the Los Angeles Fire Department, told the television station that a flash fire occurred in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>The firefighters were treated on scene and taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Injuries range from burns, concussion-type injuries from the explosions, and respiratory issues. We don&#8217;t know the severity of the injuries,&#8221; Pellegrini said.<\/p>\n<p>The technician and residents of the home were uninjured, Pellegrini explained.<\/p>\n<p>Arson investigators were called to the scene to determine what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Los Angeles firefighters were injured by an explosion while investigating a leak at a Silver Lake home.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-489322","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489322","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=489322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}