Koreatown apartment fires spark within minutes of each other, injuring 1

Investigations are underway into a pair of fires that started about 15 minutes apart, burning two separate residences and leaving one person injured in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood overnight.

Firefighters were first called to the 3000 block of San Marino Street, where fire was showing from a three-story fourplex at 12:08 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Citizen video obtained by KTLA showed the massive flames stretching into the downtown Los Angeles skyline as emergency crews responded.

About 75 firefighters were sent to the scene and extinguished the blaze in a little over half an hour. No injuries were reported.

Sixteen minutes after the San Marino Street fire began, another fire was reported less than two miles away at a four-story apartment building on the 200 block of South Westmoreland Avenue at 12:24 a.m.

Approximately 45 firefighters were assigned to that blaze, which was knocked down after about 45 minutes, according to the Fire Department.

One patient was located suffering from an unknown medical condition. No further details about the patient were provided.

There was no immediate word on what may have caused either fire or whether the two incidents were connected.