Crime & Safety
Fire Hits Rossmoor Apartment Building
A 63-year-old suffers smoke inhalation in the 2-alarm blaze, which is quickly extinguished.
Written by City News Service, posted by Roy Rivenburg
A two-alarm fire in Rossmoor damaged a three-story apartment building and left a 63-year-old man suffering smoke inhalation.
The blaze was reported at 11:52 p.m. Monday in a third-floor apartment of a center hallway building at 12200 Montecito Road, said Capt. Jon Muir of the Orange County Fire Authority.
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Firefighters extinguished the blaze in 15 minutes and treated a man at the scene for smoke inhalation, he said, adding that the man declined to be taken to a hospital for further treatment.
It was unclear if the damaged apartment was occupied when the fire broke out, Muir said.
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