Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau detectives continued their investigation Tuesday into the death of a wheelchair-bound woman in a fire at a mobile home in Calabasas.
Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters responded to the fire in the 23700 block of Mulholland Highway, near Calabasas Village and south of Viewpoint School, at the Calabasas Village Mobile Estates, shortly after 3:35 p.m. Monday, according to a department spokesman.
Aerial footage depicted a mobile home burning with intense flames and visible smoke.
After extinguishing the fire at 4:22 p.m. Monday, firefighters found an unresponsive victim, the spokesman reported.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene after investigators enter the residence and evaluated the woman who had initially been found unresponsive.
Her name was being withheld pending notification of relatives.
A firefighter went to a hospital with a minor heat-related injury after the fire was extinguished, according the county fire department.
“Investigators learned an adult female was seen running out of the location as the fire consumed the residence,” sheriff’s officials said in a statement.
“The adult female was briefly detained, treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation, and later released to her mother from Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station.”
It was unclear what caused the fire.
Anyone with additional information regarding the fatal fire was urged to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestopeprs.org.