Her neighbors thought she was still in her bedroom when the blaze was raging behind her home, prompting firefighters to take down a metal fence and remove the metal bars from the windows to make sure she was not trapped. "We called them back out, we noticed it and called them back out on the back corner of the house."īut it was not just the fire that damaged Irving's home. "A lot of wires down in the back, burning on the exterior, a hole in the roof, it was still burning today," Nila Hagan said. By Jonathan Lloyd and Ted Chen Published. She said she will be staying with family for at least a few weeks. (KABC) - A massive fire in an industrial area of Compton spread through several businesses and engulfed multiple structures and buses in flames, sending a thick plume of. No injuries were reported in Wednesdays fire, but some evacuated homeowners returned to find many of belongings had burned. Janice Irving's Compton home of 52 years was lost in the fire. (KTLA) By Matthew Ormseth Staff Writer March. Irving, who is legally blind, cannot see much of what happened to her home of 52 years, but her sister said there was a lot of smoke and water damage on the inside and some fire damage on the outside. Footage from news helicopters showed what appeared to be a pallet yard and warehouses engulfed in flames, which were spreading toward nearby homes. "I don't want to lose my composure, but it's hard to contain." "I'm speechless," Janice Irving, an 82-year-old resident who also lost her home to the fire, said. Neighbors eventually found a place for Marrufo to stay for the night with the assistance of the Red Cross. "I just told him, if we you don't find you nowhere, you gonna come stay at my house," she said. He said nobody came by to see if he was OK or if he needed help, leaving neighbors like Jackie Venters very upset. Residents can check their air quality in real time by downloading the South Coast AQMD app - at - available in English and Spanish, or by viewing the AQI map found at the bottom of the homepage.The structure was burned beyond repair, leaving the senior with kidney disease to sleep in his car. The AQMD advised anyone who smells smoke or sees ash to limit exposure by remaining indoors with windows and doors closed, and to avoid vigorous physical activity. In the aftermath of the fire, the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory for nearby areas, to remain in effect through this afternoon, noting that winds from the southwest were expected to increase as the day progresses and neighborhoods directly downwind of the fire “may experience very unhealthy air quality at times on Friday.” “And it jumped into the neighbors’ on that side, where they have buses, and … over 20 buses got burned,” Hernandez said. Then the mattress factory caught fire and it jumped onto this business, and it just started spreading like crazy. “And that fire jumped into the business behind us, and it jumped from that business to the mattress factory. “The homeless people that live in the alley, I guess they burn wood at night to keep warm,” Elias Hernandez said. “You see that second pole? It caught fire, and that’s when it fell and it just started catching fire from there … and it just started jumping all over the place.” “They burn their food and they cook,” Hernandez said. A source within the Compton Fire Department told the Los Angeles Times that the call initially came in as a “pole fire” involving Southern California Edison equipment.Ĭhristian Hernandez, a co-owner of H&H Pallets along with his brother Elias, told KTLA5 that he believes the fire that heavily damaged his business was started at a homeless encampment in a nearby alley.
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