Firefighters found multiple lithium-ion batteries used to power scooters in the basement of a two-story house fire that left four people injured, including one who was in critical condition in Koreatown Friday morning.

Emergency crews were called to the updated four-plex in the 400 block of South Gramercy Place around 8:30 a.m.

The blaze was extinguished in about 30 minutes but firefighters quickly located four patients, the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert.

“One patient was pulled from the basement in critical condition and transported to a local area hospital,” the Fire Department stated. Several scooter batteries were also found in the basement with the patient.

A second person was assisted out of a second-story window and down a Fire Department ladder before being assessed for smoke inhalation.

A third patient was also being checked for smoke inhalation and the fourth person was being assessed for other injuries, the Fire Department stated.

Firefighters primarily contained the blaze to the basement with some extension into the first floor of the building.

No firefighters were injured in the incident.

Just days after the happiest day of their lives, a newly married couple learned that their family’s Camarillo home burned to the ground during the Mountain Fire, destroying everything in sight, including irreplaceable keepsakes from their wedding.  

Brittany Berret and Jaime Sifontes were on top of the world after celebrating their nuptials in Paso Robles, something they’d been working toward for a long time.  

Then, four days after their wedding, while they were in Monterey for their honeymoon, Berret’s parents called to tell the couple about the Mountain Fire.  

“We were supposed to leave anyway on Wednesday to come home,” Berret explained. “We had planned to stay the entire day, but got a call from my mom in the morning letting us know there was a fire nearby in the canyon but typically we don’t worry about that because it’s never really jumped the 118.”  

About two hours into their drive home, her parents learned on KTLA that their house had gone up in flames. They broke the heartbreaking news to the newlyweds. 

“It felt like the longest car ride in my entire life,” Berret recalled. “There wasn’t really much we could do, so you just start thinking about everything that’s in that house, all the memories. That’s the only house I’ve ever known.”  

Sifontes and Berret lost everything from their wedding day.  

“My wedding dress, all of our registry gifts. We had been living with them, kind of saving everything that we didn’t have space for in their house,” Berret said. “Like, everything we were saving and building for our future.”  

For his part, Sifontes, who lived at the family home for five years, said his memories of the home are very strong as well.  

“It felt like a home to me. I’m very close with my wife’s family, obviously,” he said.  

After learning what happened to the young couple, their wedding planner organized a GoFundme campaign to help them, and their family rebuild their home and their lives.  

“I’m immensely grateful for the family I have, helping them. I’m so grateful to Camarillo and just working to move forward,” Sifontes said.  

Knott’s Soak City will soon undergo a “water park refresh” during the 2026 operating season, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, the parent company of Knott’s, announced on Thursday.

“Knott’s Soak City will receive a water park refresh and aesthetic enhancements,” a news release said, but details on what exactly will be updated or changed weren’t released.

The “refresh” is part of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation’s $1 billion investment to enhance the guest experience.

“Our capital investment plans for the next two years reinforce our commitment to providing unmatched thrills, immersive entertainment and lifelong memories to guests of all ages,” Six Flags president & CEO Richard A. Zimmerman said in a statement. “The new Six Flags has a unique opportunity to refresh and renew the guest experience, one so compelling that a visit to one of our parks will be viewed as an indispensable choice in family entertainment.”

The $1 billion investment will be used on “new rides, attractions, themed areas, dining upgrades, and technology enhancements,” according to company officials.

Cedar Fair, the former parent company of Knott’s Berry Farm, and Six Flags merged in an $8 billion deal earlier this year.

Company officials said that more information about the water park refresh will be shared in summer 2025.