Crime & Safety

One Dead in Fiery Northridge Crash

One person was killed and two were injured in a fiery crash involving a truck and another vehicle on Lassen Street.

A fiery crash involving a truck and another vehicle in Northridge today left one person dead and two other people injured.

Paramedics sent to the 16600 block of Lassen Street at 10:26 a.m. pronounced a person dead at the scene, said Shawn Lenske of the Los Angeles Fire Department. That individual’s gender and age were not immediately known.

Lenske said a man was treated at the scene and released, and another man was taken to a hospital, but the severity of his injuries were unclear.

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