At 11:12 on the morning of December 2, 2009 Units from the Long Beach Fire Department responded to 3825 Faust to a report of a house fire with an elderly woman possibly trapped inside.\u00a0 Upon arrival, Engine 18 found heavy smoke billowing from the rear of the house as well as from a closed garage door.\u00a0 Engine 18 crewmembers mounted an aggressive attack on the fire while other crews searched the residence for victims.\u00a0 The fire was contained to the area of an attached single car garage; however, the interior door was left open.\u00a0 This caused chocking heat and smoke to fill the residence. One elderly female was in the house at the time of the fire. An off duty Orange County Fire Authority\u00a0 captain was in the area and assisted the adult son of the woman trapped inside.\u00a0 Both forced entry into the rear of the house and assisted the woman to the front yard of the house where they awaited fire department arrival. Another passerby attempted to control the fire with a garden hose prior to fire department arrival.\u00a0 He sustained burns to his hands and face and was transported to a local hospital by Long Beach paramedics.\u00a0 Both mother and son from the involved residence suffered from smoke inhalation and were also transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
The cause of this fire is currently under investigation.\u00a0 There is no immediate estimate on damage.\u00a0 Fortunately there were no reports of injury to first responders or to other citizens.\u00a0 The first fire units arrived on scene 3 minutes from the time of dispatch.\u00a0 Responding units included:\u00a0 Engine 18, Light Force 19, Engine 5, Light Force 14, Rescue 17, Rescue 9, BLS 17 and BC 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 11:12 on the morning of December 2, 2009 Units from the Long Beach Fire Department responded to 3825 Faust to a report of a house fire with an elderly woman possibly trapped inside.\u00a0 Upon arrival, Engine 18 found heavy smoke billowing from the rear of the house as well as from a closed garage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}