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Share this article: A Los Angeles Fire Department truck . Photo by John Schreiber. An explosion and fire at an apartment building in South Pasadena Tuesday left a woman seriously injured, police said. Firefighters and police officers were sent to the 1700 block of Huntington Drive about 6:30 a.m., according to the Pasadena Police Department . The 12-unit complex was evacuated, and firefighters quickly extinguished the flames. The woman, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, police said. Investigators were seeking the cause of the explosion and fire. –City News Service Explosion and fire in Pasadena: apartment building evacuated , woman seriously injured was last modified: August 15th, 2017 by Christina Kelley >> Want to read more stories like this? Get our Free Daily Newsletters Here! Follow us:

Firefighters were back at the scene of an apartment fire in Maple Ridge, B.C., Friday morning. The fire flared up again just as crews were preparing to leave around 6:45 a.m. PT. The two- alarm fire started in a bedroom on the third floor of the four-storey building on the 2300-block of McIntosh Avenue Thursday night . It was finally extinguished by 8:30 a.m. Fire crews said the fire spread quickly because there were no sprinklers in the building, but much of the damage was caused by fire hose water . Around 30 people were forced from the building, and an elderly couple and a dog had to be rescued by ladder off the balconies. One person was taken to hospital for smoke inhalation. The residents were taken to a nearby hotel and some have already been told it could be months before they are able to move back in. A marijuana grow-op was also discovered in a suite on the third floor of the building, but firefighters said they did not think it was linked to the fire. Police are expected t...

MARTINEZ (CBS SF) – Fire crews were at the scene of a fire in Martinez that gutted at least two apartments Thursday morning . The blaze was reported around 10:30 a.m. at the Muirwood Apartments complex at 600 Center Ave., a Martinez police lieutenant seported around 10:30 a.m. at the Muirwood Apartments complex at 600 Center Ave., a Martinez police lieutenant said. The fire appeared to have started in an upstairs unit of a building in the back of the sprawling complex. Lynn Wheeler, who lives next door to one of the apartments destroyed by the blaze, said her neighbor told her she had gone out to her balcony to smoke a cigarette and had come back to find her bed on fire. Another neighbor, 49-year-old Glenda Ramero, said she saw flames shooting from an upstairs apartment balcony and heard glass shattering as the unit’s windows broke. Ramero said she quickly got her wheelchair-bound mother and 8-year-old daughter out of her apartment. As of 11:45 a.m., the blaze had been extinguis...