Couple Married for 64 Years Died from Sun Valley House Fire

SUN VALLEY, CA — A couple in their 90s who died in a house fire on their family's Sun Valley ranch were formally identified Monday.

Theodore Kiapos, 91, and Aspasia Kiapos, 90, who were married for more than six decades, died at a hospital, said coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter.

The fire erupted shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday at 9145 La Tuna Canyon Road, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.

Flames were showing from the attic and three windows of the one-story Hacienda-style home when firefighters arrived, Humphrey said. The blaze was extinguished in about an hour, Humphrey said. The cause of the fire was under investigation.

Another woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of significant smoke exposure and burned fingers suffered during multiple attempts to enter the burning home before firefighters arrived, Humphrey said.

One firefighter was examined for extreme exertion, taken to a hospital and released later that day, Humphrey said.

The couple who died in the fire had been married for almost 64 years, according to a GoFundMe page established by their granddaughter.

"Ted and Aspasia's love for one another is a testament to what true love, pure love and unconditional love is," Sophia Kiapos wrote on the page. "They passed in body together, but live on in spirit as they dance their way through eternal peace."

— City News Service, photo courtesy of GoFundMe