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Los Angeles Motor Home Fire with Civilian Fatality

On Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006 at 3:04 a.m., six companies of Los Angeles firefighters, four LAFD Rescue Ambulances, five Arson Units, one EMS Battalion Captain, and one Battalion Chief Officer Command Team, under the direction of Battalion Chief Christopher Logan responded to a motor home fire at 660 West San Fernando Road in the Cypress Park/Mount Washington.

First units on the scene reported a mobile home park with one motor home, space #20, well involved with fire and exposing a shed and two other motor homes in the “AAA Mobile Home Estates.” Firefighters using handlines aggressively attacked the fire and confined the fire to the 20-foot motor home with minor damage to two other motor homes and a shed and extinguished the fire in 15 minutes. After the fire was extinguished, the body of a male adult was found inside the motor home and declared dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is listed as under investigation.