The close call drew a sharp rebuke from the LAPD helicopter pilot.
The fire was reported at 11:56 p.m. Sunday.
It is unknown if the stabbing was gang-related or if the victim was homeless, police said.
A 35-year-old man was killed in an Echo Park shooting, authorities said Monday.
Firefighters had difficulty forcing entry into the building.
Several of the cases involved young and disabled children or threats of extreme violence, according to prosecutors.
The quarter-acre fire broke out a little after 3:30 a.m. near the Elysian Park neighborhood, just over two miles from Dodger Stadium.
The fire broke out around 4:04 p.m. Monday on North Silver Ridge Avenue.
The LAPD is urging people to call 9-1-1 if they think they are being followed along with a series of protective measures.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Arson Unit.
A 60-year-old man died Saturday after falling about 30 feet from a bridge in the Silver Lake district.
On June 30th at approximately 7:30 p.m. there was a major explosion in South Los Angeles due to the detonation of illegal fireworks.
Echo Park Lake was closed Saturday morning, with the last of more than 200 people experiencing homelessness removed.
Firefighters were able to quickly contain a small grass fire that broke out in Elysian Park Tuesday.
Police are asking for help identifying the driver who struck and killed Morena Del Carmen Alvarado-Lopez, 58, and injured her husband.
Firefighters quickly doused a fire that broke out Wednesday morning in one unit of a Silver Lake Fourplex.
A woman was killed, and a man is in critical condition after they were struck by a hit and run driver in Echo Park
An 87-year-old man was killed Saturday when he was struck by two cars and both drivers fled the scene, authorities said.
Though prosecutors say the Gene Evin Atkins is faking mental incompetence, a judge ordered a court-appointed psychiatrist to evaluate him.
The electric fire truck, which will be the first in use anywhere in North America, is slated to be put to use on 2021.
A man suspected of driving a stolen BMW and causing a head-on crash that killed the other driver Thursday has been arrested.
Authorities asked for the public's help in finding a 39-year-old man suspected of causing a deadly hit-and-run crash in Echo Park.
The driver of a possibly stolen car in Koreatown crashed and fled while his passenger suffered a severed leg trying to jump from the car.
Police hope someone will recognize two men who robbed employees and customers at gunpoint at Silver Lake and Highland Park businesses.
Firefighters couldn't save two dogs and a cat in the blaze at a two-story apartment fire in Los Feliz Wednesday.
Police are investigating the death of a man in his 60s whose body was discovered Monday morning.
A 35-year-old Los Angeles woman is accused of hitting a man and fleeing the scene in November.
A police officer suffered a minor injury during a shooting involving a domestic violence suspect, police said.
A man in his 60s was killed by a driver who fled the scene Thursday morning in Echo Park.
The cause of the house fire remains under investigation.
Debra Tucker, 58, was last seen about 2 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of East Laurel Street.
Christian Escobedo, 22, was fatally shot last year by an LAPD officer investigating a call of men sleeping on a driveway.
The cause of the early morning fire was under investigation.
Police allege a 52-year-old Los Angeles Unified School District teacher struck and seriously injured a cyclist and fled the scene.
Los Angeles will go from fire weather to fireplace weather in just two days with fall weather arriving on a dramatic note.
The courtroom erupted into cheers when the judge told Ruben Martinez Jr. he was "free to go," after being wrongfully convicted of robbery.
A jury convicted a 60-year-old man in the 1980 rape and murder of a woman in her Silver Lake apartment.
Three robbery suspects died at the scene of the crash at an offramp of the Hollywood (101) Freeway, and a fourth is in critical condition.
Firefighters quickly doused a grass fire burning near residential buildings on Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park Thursday afternoon.
An LA Times report found racial disparity in LAPD stops and searches despite white suspects' higher propensity to carry illegal items.