Firefighter Rescues Women From Burning San Fernando Valley Home

LOS ANGELES, CA — Two people are recovering Monday after a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter rescued them from a burning building.

The dramatic rescue occurred Sunday morning when firefighters arrived on the scene of a house fire in the Pacoima area to find it engulfed in smoke and flames.

According to LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey, the blaze broke out Monday just before 11 a.m. in the 10900 block of North El Dorado Avenue.

Two women, an adult and a teen, suffered from smoke inhalation and had to be rescued, according to authorities.

They "were rescued from the burning building by one of the first arriving LAFD Firefighters, who assisted them in exiting the smoke-charged structure via a bathroom window," Humphrey said.

The pair was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

It took 48 LAFD firefighters about 30 minutes to access, confine and douse an outside fire that extended into the attic of a 2,928 square-foot one-story home, said Humphrey.

The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.