Local News in Brief : Fire Destroys Building in Van Nuys; 3 Injured
Firefighters on Sunday were investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a Van Nuys apartment complex under construction and slightly injured three people who fled an adjacent building.
The fire, in the 14700 block of Erwin Street, began about 5:30 p.m. Saturday and caused an estimated $200,000 in damage to the unfinished building. It took about 30 minutes for nine fire companies to extinguish the blaze, said Jim Wells, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
A woman and two children--a boy, 10, and a girl, 12--suffered minor burns as they fled a two-story building next door to the fire, Wells said. Their names were not released.
The two-story building to the west had $7,000 in damage and a three-story building to the east had $10,000 in damage, Wells said.
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