Fire damages three units at Chase Knolls apartment complex in Sherman Oaks
Fire damages three units at Chase Knolls apartment complex in Sherman Oaks
A man who experienced smoke exposure was transported to a hospital from a greater-alarm fire Thursday at a two-story building in the historic Chase Knolls apartment complex in Sherman Oaks.
The man’s condition was not immediately known, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
“Another civilian at a nearby address is currently being evaluated at scene by LAFD paramedics for an unspecified medical complaint,” said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Firefighters dispatched at 8:38 a.m. to 13420 Huston St., a couple of blocks east of Woodman Avenue, took 28 minutes to knock down a fire that quickly extended from one first-floor unit to a pair of units on the second floor at the two-story, 76-year-old structure, Humphrey said.
No other injuries were reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation.
The location is part of the large Chase Knolls apartment complex, built in 1949 on the 13-acre site of a former dairy farm, that occupies about three-quarters of a city block east of Notre Dame High School between Riverside Drive and Huston Street.
Designed by noted architect Ralph Vaughn, one of the few African American architects practicing in Southern California at the time, the complex of midcentury-style structures of various sizes has been the subject of controversy over issues that included the preservation of trees and of the 20th-century buildings themselves over the past several years.
Chase Knolls was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2000 for being an ideal village of the postwar Garden City movement.
Los Angeles Daily News staff contributed to this report.
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