An 80-year-old man was seriously injured in a fire at a one-story duplex in South Los Angeles Friday evening.
Firefighters responded to the 9000 block of South Orchard Avenue, near Hoover and 90th streets, around 7:40 p.m. Friday to a report of a residential fire, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The man was immediately located inside the building and taken to a hospital, Stewart said.
The cause of the fire was unclear and under investigation.