Pacoima Woman, 57, Dies in Fire

A Pacoima woman died Saturday shortly after firefighters pulled her from her burning home, authorities said.

Betty Meyers, 57, was pronounced dead at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Panorama City after the 12:24 a.m. blaze in the 9000 block of Sandusky Avenue, fire officials said.

Meyers’ 25-year-old daughter, who was in the house at the time and heard her mother scream, escaped through her bedroom window and was not hurt.

The house was ablaze when firefighters arrived, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said. They found Meyers lying in a hallway of the single-story house. She didn’t have a pulse and was not breathing.

“They made an aggressive, tenacious assault on the fire, knowing she was still inside,” Humphrey said. “They found her quickly, but in spite of advanced lifesaving efforts, she did not survive.”

The cause of the fire, which caused $60,000 in damage, was under investigation Saturday.