Crime & Safety
1 Hospitalized After 2-Alarm Blaze At Senior Apartments
The fire broke out Thursday afternoon in Pleasant Hill.
PLEASANT HILL, CA —One person suffered burns and smoke inhalation in a two-alarm fire at a senior living facility in Pleasant Hill on Thursday afternoon, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.
The fire was reported at 1:15 p.m. in an unoccupied unit at the Hookston Senior Apartments at 80 W. Hookston Road.
A male victim in an adjacent unit suffered injuries while trying to escape through a hallway and had to be rescued from an apartment balcony, fire district spokesman Steve Hill said. He was taken to a hospital and an update on his condition was not immediately available.
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Crews extinguished the fire by shortly before 2 p.m. and its cause is under investigation, Hill said.
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