A man rescued from a burning apartment Wednesday in the Florence area died despite efforts by paramedics to resuscitate him.
Crews were called about 2:20 p.m. to an upstairs apartment in a five-unit, 3,820-square-foot building at 317 W. 76th St., between Broadway and Grand Avenue, said Brian Humphrey with the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Flames were visible from the unit when crews arrived. When firefighters entered the smoky apartment, they found the man unresponsive and “quickly carried him from the apartment and downstairs to a waiting team of LAFD firefighter/paramedics,” Humphrey said.
Paramedics tried to resuscitate the victim but his injuries “proved to be beyond medical help” and he died at the scene, Humphrey said.
No one else was injured.
The victim’s name was not released.
It took 35 firefighters 13 minutes to extinguish the blaze.
Humphrey said the 57-year-old building had smoke alarms, but not fire sprinklers. Damage to the building and its contents were estimated at $25,000.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, Humphrey said.