Hundreds of firefighters and multiple emergency response helicopters converged on a 25-story high-rise in Brentwood, California on Wednesday morning after a massive fire broke out on the sixth floor, sending smoke billowing out as onlookers watched in alarm from the streets. Early reports indicate that eight people were treated as a result of the fire, including two adults who reportedly suffered critical injuries.
According to officials from the Los Angeles Fire Department, the fire broke out at just after 8:30 a.m. at the Barrington Plaza residential building, located at 11740 Wilshire Blvd., and was finally extinguished just before 10 a.m. By the time the fire was put down, eight people were injured and a section of the sixth story utterly destroyed, but as reports from the scene have made clear, the impact of the fire could have been far worse had the response not been so swift and thorough.
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