Local News in Brief : Blaze at UCLA Sorority
Arson investigators Friday sifted through the charred remains of a Westwood sorority house where a blaze forced 51 students to flee into the night.
City Fire Department spokesman Jim Wells said that the cause was unknown and that a routine investigation by arson specialists was ordered in the fire that did $180,000 damage to the Kappa Delta sorority house near UCLA, slightly injuring three people.
About 30 firefighters from five engine companies managed to extinguish the blaze at 10:06 p.m. Thursday, about an hour after it broke out, Wells said.
The fire damaged four of the dorm’s 10 bedrooms, causing $150,000 in damage to the structure and $30,000 damage to its contents.
The 51 students and their den mother had to leave the dormitory, Wells said, but “some other sorority sisters took them in.”
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